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CONTENTS 



VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2, FEBRUARY 1993 



FEATURES 

Devices & Desires 

By Sheldon Leemon 30 

This comparative evaluation of 13 enhanced- 
display devices is designed to satisfy vonr 
every desire Tot' the richer color and in- 
creased resolution of 24-bit Amiga graphics. 

Four Color for More Color 

By Steven Blaize 39 

While our lead article shows you how to 
achieve greater color resolution on screen, 
this companion piece will help von 
output tiiose colorful results on paper via 
an assortment of full-color printing 
techniques. 

ARTICLES 

The "Language" of Motion 

By Mark Jordan 43 

Learning the secrets of a dynamic new 
programming tool in the AMOS lan- 
guage will help you put some powerful 
zip into your Amiga animations, games, 
and other graphics creations. 

The Great Amiga Back(up) Off 

Byjeff James 49 

Seven Hungry hard-drive back-up utili- 
ties square off in a rigorous test of speed, 
performance features, ease of use, and 
value vs. price. 

Digging into DOS - 4 

By Sheldon Leemon 43 

This month's installment of our series 
on AmigaDOS 2.0 shows you how to take 
advantage of the vastly improved font- 
handling capabilities of Workbench 2.0. 

COLUMNS 

Editor's Drawer 

By Dennis Brisson 6 

The editor spells out some lough deci- 
sions users will soon he lacing in the 
wake of Commodore's introduction of 
the new AGA line of Amiga computers. 

Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen 60 

In tlte second of a two-parter on "putting 
things in perspective," you'll learn how to 
simulate ihe parallax effect to heighten 
the illusion of depth in your animations. 



COVLR SCRKKN IMACJK BY MARK MILLER 
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWARD fUDICE 




"Devii rs unit Desires" — p. 30 

Bm'erful display hoards for 24-hil graphics. 

Video Suite 

By Geoffrey Williams 62 

If you wain to do an Amiga video studio 
on a shoestring, here's how to pull of! a 
nifty feat of economy using a camcorder 
as your sole piece of video gear, 

DEMRTMENTS 

Overscan 8 

Four jam-packed pages of Amiga news, 
new products, and network goings-on. 

Help Key 110 

Wily Tim Walsh takes over the reigns full 
time here at the help line to whip your 
lech problems into shape. 

AW Product 

Information 114 

To contact the developer of any product 
mentioned in this issue of Amiga-World, 
consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/ 
Distributors' Addresses" list. 



The Last Word 120 

A healthy dose of leader feedback. 

REVIEWS 

SAS/C6.0 (SAS Institute) 18 

Major overhaul of the world-class C 
development system for the Amiga. 



Scala Multimedia 200 (Scala) ..20 

Moving to the head of the multimedia- 
presentation class. 

PhonePak VFX (GVP) 24 

This slick ph one-ma i l/fax system could 
be habit forming. 

Final Copy II (Softwood) 74 

A happy hybrid of word-processing/desk- 

lop-publishing capabilities. 

G-Lock (gvp) 76 

Three-in-one genlock/encoder/transcoden 

OPALVlSION 1.1 (Centaur) . 77 

Fast release of an enhanced version of 
the new 24-bit graphics system. 

TechnoSound Turbo 2.7 

(Griffin) 82 

Economical sampling/editing combo. 

MorphPlus (asdG) 83 

Morphing — plus a slew of other great 
special effects. 

TOUCHDOWN 100 (New Horizons) ..84 
250MB streaming-tape drive. 

GAMES 

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 92 

The maestro unleashes a Pandora's box 
of nifty Ultima VI cheats and tricks. 

Lure of the Temptress 

(Kanami) 92 

Fascinating animated adventure in the 
classic mode. 

CAMPAIGN (Empire / Readysofl) 96 

Strategy and tactics in the WWII arena. 

Compilation Compendium 98 

Four collections of classics revisited. 

Short Takes 102 

Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. 

The Next Round 106 

Announcements of upcoming titles in 
the Amiga game market. 

About the Cover 

For more details about the hill-color 
Amiga-generated image on this month's 
cover, see the box on p. 120. 



Amiga-World 3 



Introduces G-LOCK 

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■k Software Switthable 
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•A- Real-Time, Safiware-Conlrolled Video 
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•k Complete 2-lnpul 
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Volume, Bass, Treble, 

Mix and Mute Control — Add DSSB' Audio 
Samples to Your Videos. 

* Software Controlled RGB Color Splitter for 
Use with NewTek Digi-View" ond Other 
Video Digitizers. 

And only G-LOCK offers. . . 

Full transcoder operation with composite. Y/C, and RGB/YUV outputs; 
ECS/AA keyer modes control; complete AmigaVision* and Scala" com- 
patibility 7 ; and a host of other features only GVP realized you want from a 
quality genlock — but you'd never expect — at such an affordable price. 

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£ DRAWER 

Just when you thought it was safe to settle hack with your 
familiar Amiga computer, Commodore forces you to make 
some tough choices. 




Commodore Users 
at the Crossroads 

You may have survived the multimedia 
blitz. Or artfully dodged the pitch for 
productivity. Or escaped unimpaired 
the entertainment invasion. 

But you better brace yourself for the 
next barrage. 

We are in the throes of a revolution- 
ary computer change, featuring a new 
generation of Commodore machines 
and accompanied by new graphics 
standards with more colors and higher 
resolution, faster processing speeds, 
new hardware features, and a new 
operating system. 

Pit\ r the poor Amiga traveler. He or 
she won't be able to elude the invasion. 
The only recourse is to get a grip and 
decide which road to take: the new 
expressway of AGA graphics, or the old 
streets, more familiar and secure. 

Commodore recently took advantage 
ol the Comdex Show to formally intro- 
duce the new A 1200 computer in the 
US. This follows on the heels — two 
months earlier — of the debut of the 
A4000, Commodore's 25 MHz '040- 
based computer with expanded graph- 
ics capabilities. The A4000, which 
replaced the KCS chip set with the 
AGA chip set, is clearly targeting the 
high-end market with applications for 
the professional and business markets. 
Its little brother, the A1200, features a 
smaller case and less expansion poten- 
tial, but includes the same audio and 
graphics capabilities, as well as the new 
operating system. 

Commodore emphasized that the 
A1200 does not supplant the AfiOO or 
A2000 computers, whose fates depend 
on user demand. With its features and 
price point, the A120U is well-suited for 
the home user or where a back-up 
computer system or portability, such as 
in kiosk displays, is warranted. 



Commodore, with its engineers as 
busy as elves on Christmas Eve, is to be 
commended for meeting the needs of 
today's creative users — from the ama- 
teur artist to the video professional. 
CBM's announcements — designed to 
Counter recent moves in other markets 
that featured the relaunch of two com- 
petitive computers (PC and Mac Clas- 
sic) — clearly strengthen the Amiga's 
position as the multimedia micro best 
suited for video, animation, presenta- 
tion, and graphics. Now, with the re- 
lease of the low-cost A1200, 
Commodore is also addressing the 
needs of non-video users, regardless of 
application — business, productivity, 
entertainment, education, whatever. 

Several products — both hardware 
and software — for the new machines 
are already on the scene, and we know 
that more are on the way. The Com- 
modore support market is gearing up 
to develop and modify its existing 
products to make sure they're compati- 
ble with the AGA standard and the new 
operating system. AmigaWarld will 
report on these new developments as 
they become available. 

It's an exciting time. Commodore's 
new machines have been well-received 
— by users, dealers and developers. We 
anticipate that this will translate into 
exciting new products and applications 
for these machines... and can't wait to 
see what else Commodore has in store. 

What all this means for you, .Amiga 
user, is that you have some tough 
choices to make. 

For some of us the choice is obvious: 
"I want to ride the cresting waves, so 
AGA is for me." Others may be more 
reticent, preferring to follow in the 
wake and wait for sales and support to 
be established. But what about the rest? 
Will we hit the w r aves or sit on shore? 

The expansion features of the Amiga 
only make the decision process more 
difficult. With Commodore's new A570, 
for instance, Amiga 500 owners can 



add a CD-ROM drive, which opens up 
a whole new world of CD storage and 
capability, CDTV titles, additional 
RAM, and expandability options. Video 
artists can use existing Amigas, all of 
which, to some extent, can be used for 
video work. And, if you've already 
added an accelerator to your Amiga, 
you may not need the speed increase of 
the new machines. For some, the mem- 
ory of a recent purchase — a video card 
or another hard drive, for example — 
may have diminished your enthusiasm, 
as well as your pocketbook, for another 
high-tech computer. 

But if, on the other hand, you want 
the latest in graphics capabilities, then 
the choice is clear. You'll have to join 
the AGA generation. Until someone 
develops a practical alternative, there 
seems to be no way to upgrade existing 
Amigas to the new graphics standards. 

So there's the choice: Keep your 
present system and purchase add-on 
products that increase its power and 
productivity or buy one of the new 
machines. Some Amiga owners, like 
some car owners, must have the newest 
model each year, while others are con- 
tent to keep the older buggy as long as 
it runs well. It depends on your needs 
and applications. 

But don't wait too long to decide. 
Commodore has stated that it "plans to 
move quickly in its development and 
release of new Amiga models and its 
further enhancements to the operating 
system." This might be your time to 
take advantage of a great opportunity. 




Dennis Brisson 
Editor-in-Chief 



6 February 1993 



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OVERSCAN 

A/ews, /Vew Products and Networks 



Just Imagine 

If you're looking for software designed 

to work with Impulse's Imagine, look here. 
Unlike texture maps or brush maps, the 
algorithmic textures with which Imagine 
lets yon define attributes contain no pixel 
artifacts. Apex Software can more than 
quintuple the number of algorithmic tex- 
tures that come standard with Imagine. 
Essence (S79.95: RS# 126) gives you 65 
new possibilities, ranging from the simple 
Hex (colored hexagonal tiles) to the com- 
plex Fractal Noise (a turbulent, detail-rich 
natural-looking coloring lor such objects 
as clouds, lire, planets, and so on). The al- 
gorithms are fully compatible with the 
floating-point versions of Imagine 2,0, 
1.1, and even its predecessor Turbo Sil- 
ver; sufficient demand will result in an in- 



teger version designed to run on 68000 
machines. (Turn to p. 30 to see Essence 
textures implemented in Bradlev 
Schencks "Study" image.) 

Impulse itself is distributing an Italian 
program. Morphus(Sl 19.95), "a kind of 
solid modeler." Morphus accepts a 
TDDD object or group previously creat- 
ed with other modelers, and then de- 
forms the loaded surface and saves one 
or more TDDD files with the same con- 
figurations as the original object. The 
structure remains unaltered except lor 
3-D point coordinates. 

Because Morphus computes matrices, it 
involves man)' calculations and therefore 
provides increased performance on accel- 
erated Amigas. The amount of memory it 




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The sixth annual Bit. Movie contest will 
run April 9-12 in Riccione, Italy. Cate- 
gories include still images, animations, 
and real-time music. All entries must he 
created on a personal computer, and must 
be postmarked by March 10, 1993. For 
more information, write to Bit. Movie '93, 
c/<> Carlo Mainanli. via ISologna 13, 47036 
Riccione, Italy. Or, fax him at 39-541- 
646635. 



requires depends on the number of points 
and edges yew specify; by default the pro- 
gram runs with 1MB. (RS# 127.) 



CyberArts Reveals Amiga is Positioned for Multimedia 



PASADENA, CALIFORNIA— For those con- 
cerned with the evolving worlds of interactive mul- 
timedia and virtual reality (VR), one of the most 
significant conferences each year is CyberArts In- 
ternational. The third annual show was held Oc- 
tober 29-November 1 in Pasadena. Founded by 
the publishers of Keyboard Magazine, the show 
feels like a cross between a futuristic Renaissance 
Faire and an inlergalaclic meeting of artists, scien- 
tists, developers, and business scouts. 

The Exhibit Hall is a three-ring circus of exotic fu- 
turists decked out in VR helmets and bodysuits 
inviting visitors to experience new realms of multi- 
sensory imagination. The tutorial sessions are in- 
depth demonstrations of the latest hardware and 
software tools, with practical business discussions 
on multimedia VR applications for interactive 
games, education, fiim production, theme parks, 
architecture, and industrial design. This year the 
Grand Hall sessions examined startling new multi- 
media applications and challenged attendees to 
consider the social impact of their creations. The 
very last event of the conference is the Artists' Sum- 
mit, a dedicated forum for the exchange of ideas 
and contacts for those seeking technical solutions, 
sources of funding, and collaborative partners. 



Amiga users may be proud to know that the 
hands-down hit was Virtuality. Driven by a well- 
hidden A3Q00. it is the first fairway-styie VR game 
being installed in malls around the country. Busy 
conference attendees stood in line 40 minutes to 
get their turn on the Virtuality cybernaut platform. 

The Amiga Angle 

Animator (and AmigoWnt'ld contributor) Steve 
Segal was spotted looking over Autodesk's highly- 
publicized new S3000 3-D Studio package for the 
PC. As an Imagine and LightWave user, Steve was 
surprised at the relative clumsiness of 3-D Studio's 
interface and navigating tools, "It's not close to 
what we already have in LightWave," he said. 

There was an "Amigamaniacs" tutorial, which 
surveyed the advantages of the Amiga for multi- 
media developers, John Donovan, Amiga editor 
for Verbum, suggests that new platform-emulation 
utilities (or the Amiga, the dedicated graphics and 
audio chips, and inherent architectural advantages 
for video handling combine to make the Amiga the 
power platform for the future of multimedia. Cur- 
rently the majority of American developers use an 
expensive Silicon Graphics workstation or a Mac- 
intosh computer (which has only one CPU for han- 



dling all data, including graphics and audio.) 

Donovan showed the A4000 and its exciting new 
object-oriented Workbench 3.0 with Advanced 
Graphics Architecture (AGA), shared palette capa- 
bility, PostScript-print support, file-format convert- 
er, high-density drives, graphic windows of stored 
video images, and the "locale library" that sup- 
pons 17 languages to help developers internation- 
alize applications rapidly. He pointed out that the 
Amiga's cooperative {versus preemptive! multi- 
tasking allows multimedia developers to have 
MIDI programs running in the background, with 
ARexx tie-ins between image-processing pro- 
grams such as ASDG's Art Department Pro and 
NewTek's Digi-Paint, so that, "a developer doesn't 
have to take time to develop macro language: 
they can set up looping programs to automatically 
process thousands of images between applica- 
tions tied together in the integrated environment." 

Cooperative Development 

Steve Hicks of Laser Motion demonstrated plat- 
form emulation, using ReadySoft's AMax tl+ to 
emulate the black-and-white Macintosh series. 
The Amiga's dedicated graphics chip gave an im- 
pressive power boost to such programs as Aldus 



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8 February 1993 



ProWritef33 
The Best Just Keeps Getting Better 




Pro Write is the 
best selling word 
processor for the 
Amiga®, and for 
good reason. 
High perfor- 
mance. Ease-of-use. Constant updates 
and enhancements, And now a new 
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New Features 

ProWrite 3.3 gives you more power 
than ever before. More powerful 
graphic handling, including automatic 
text-wrap. Print preview. Password 
protection for your documents. The 
ability to name and find pictures in 
long documents. Full clipboard sup- 
port, for seamless exchange of text and 
pictures with other programs. And 
HOtUnHS y) ' M support, giving you 
total integration of ProW'rite with 
other HotLinks-capable programs! 

Proven Performance 

Combine this with ProW'rite's already 
formidable feature set, and you have 
the most powerful word processor for 
the Amiga. Features like multiple 
fonts and pictures. A spelling checker 
with over 100,000 dictionary words. A 
thesaurus with over 300,000 cross-ref- 
erences. Outline font support. Jaggie- 
free printing, for high-quality printing 
on dot-matrix printers. PostScript 
printing. Macros and AREXX support 
for power users. Mail merge, for form 
letters. And multiple columns, includ- 
ing side-by-side columns for writing 
audio/video scripts — a Pro Write 
exclusive! And the list goes on! 



And of course, Pro Write 3.3 retains 
the speed and ease-of-use that has 
made it famous with thousands of 
Amiga users world-wide. 

New Low Price! 

Even with all this power, ProWrite is 
more affordable than ever before — 
because ProWrite is available now for 
only $99.95! So you no longer have a 
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• Multiple fonts, sizes, styles, and colors. 

• Outline font support. 

• Insert IFF and HAM pictures in your 
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♦ Automatically wrap text around pictures. 

* Multiple columns, with snaking or side-by- 
side text flow. 

Spelling checker with 100,000 word 
dictionary. 

Thesaurus with 300,000 cross-references. 

Full system clipboard support. 

I lotLinksTM support. 

Undo and Retlo command. 

Mail merge. 

AREXX port. 

Macros, when used with AREXX. 

Name and search for pictures in a document. 

Speaking capability, to read back document 
contents. 

Separate odd and even page headers and 
footers, 

Paragraph sorting. 

Automatic page numbering, with five 

different page number styles. 

Insert current date and time, with five 
different date formats and two time formats. 

Word count and readability level calculation. 

Up to 1 documents open at the same time. 

Document password protection. 

User-set document comments. 

Horizontal and/or vertical document rulers, 
for precise positioning. 

Custom page sizes. 

Print preview. 

PostScript printing, in black & white or 

color. 

High-quality graphics printing for jaggie-free 

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time. 

( lomplete printer control, including sideways 
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Automatic timed saves and backups. 

Import and export Professional Page text 

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Comprehensive keyboard commands. 

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Fully customizable. 

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Pagemaker. Many develpopers are looking for- 
ward to the ability to develop QuickTime movies 
with the Amiga, but Utilities Unlimited's Emplant 
board, which promises to emulate the color Mac 
llci, is not yet available. This could be a break- 
through for developers, as most multimedia- 
development software and applications are now 
for Mac, even though the Amiga is inherently 
more flexible. PC emulators such as Com- 
modore's Bridgeboard and Vortex's ATonce, allow 



Amiga's multitasking flexibility to toggle between 
PC and Amiga applications. Centaur's OpalVision, 
with its 24-bit color graphics tools, ASDG's Morph 
Plus, and NewTok's LiglitWave were among other 
Amiga products demonstrated. 

Meanwhile, back in the halls, some techno- 
trekxies exchanged exotic ideas about the future 
of direct neural implants, but the greatest excite- 
ment was generated by the affordability of multi- 
media tools, which Stewart Brad (developer of 



The Whole Earth Catalog and the Well computer 
network) called "lite new peasant technology, 
within reach of every home." He predicts this tech- 
nology will progressively replace passive linear 
entertainment with smart TV systems that are 
linked to computer exchanges, through which 
many people can simultaneously play in the same 
interactive movie — and then create their own. Stay 
tuned, cybernuuts. 

— Patric Hediund 




ON-LINE 

SCAN By 



Long-overdue praise and 
recognition is in order for 
those who enjoy serving as 
sysop (system operator) for a 
public BBS. Amiga users have 
fewer sources of system-spe- 
cific information than, say, 
IBM-PC owners, so bulletin- 
board systems are invaluable 
to them. As timely sources, 
they are important tools not 
only for individuals, but for 
users' groups, manufacturers, 
and anyone needing to collect 
or distribute files and garner 
feedback. But, while BBS 
sysops can rest assured that 
they are providing an impor- 
tant service, I feel obligated to 
forewarn, though not discour- 
age, an)' considering this de- 
mandingjob. (And long-term 
stints as a sysop for various 
BBSs make me somewhat of 
an authority.) 

Self Motivation 

The task reminds me of my 
childhood career as a side- 
walk snow shoveller. What 
that lowly position lacked in 
prestige, it also lacked in 
compensation. And just when 
I'd decided that the job 
couldn't get worse, neighbor- 
hood kids discovered great 
sport in pelting me with 
snowballs. Nonetheless, small 
signs of appreciation from 
anyone who didn't slip and 
fall as a result of my efforts 
made it gratifying work. 

Maintaining a public BBS 
is no sweat physically, but 
otherwise it's like having 



Bruegel the Elder paint end- 
less landscapes of despair 

deep in one's psyche. In 
place of back pain, you get 
unpredictable hardware, 
software, and phone-line 
failures. Instead of low 
wages, there are {usually) no 
wages. And, lacking snow- 
balls, errant juveniles hurl 
grammatically incorrect in- 
sults at your message area. 

Finally, increasing success 
demands an ever greater 
price: The time spent main- 
taining the BBS grows in 
proportion to numbers of 
callers, inquiries, and files. 

If operating a BBS re- 
quired only a dedication to 
appreciative callers, a dog 
could do it. But to be a good 
sysop, you need unselfish 
willingness to sacrifice your 
free time even to the unap- 
preciative. Even the busiest 
sysops learn that it pays to 
answer all posted questions 
within a day or two, lest the 
BBS users become restless. If 
there's a plus side to being a 
sysop, a less-than-prompt re- 
sponse to inquiries usually 
creates little more than mu- 
tual bitter feelings, and all 
but the rudest callers are un- 
derstanding. 

But the prerequisites don't 
end with time and patience; 
setting up a BBS demands at 
least one reliable, hard-drive- 
equipped Amiga, at least one 
modem with a dedicated 
phone line, and, of course, 
software. Software is where 



Tim Walsh 



the commercial networks of- 
fer relief. There's no need 
for a sysop to plunk clown 
big bucks for a commercial 
BBS program; shareware 
and freeware programs are 
amply supplied on the nets. 

Software Assistance 

Because most of these pro- 
grams are available on all the 
networks, 1*11 list the more 
popular ones available on 
BIX, CompuServe, GEnie, 
and Portal: 

BaudBandit BBS: The 
most recent version, 5.7, was 
uploaded lo several major 
nets in mid-November. This 
ARexx-based version seem- 
ingly offers whatever option 
your BBS needs. There are 

99 file libraries and fully 
threaded message confer- 
ences. Numbers of users, 
files, and messages arc de- 
termined by storage space. 

Elite BBS 81: A popular 
multitasking BBS. with few 
bells and whistles, for getting 
up and limning in a hurry. 

Falcon BBS: Available on 
most nets in two parts that 
appear as IALCON 1 .LZH and 
FALCON2.LZH, litis is a much 
Sought-after BBS. Equipped 

with Ftdonet support, Falcon 

oilers message editors, pro- 
grammable melius, and up lo 

100 message bases and file- 
areas. 

Proteus BBS Engine Pack- 
age: Another ARexx-based 
programming package. Pro- 
letts comes with the BBS 



sei-ver and system scripts. A 
working knowledge of 
ARexx commands and 
scripts is mandatory, as 
ARexx is used to program all 
user interaction. 

MicroHost 1.3: Roughlv 
27K in size, MicroHost is 
probably the smallest Amiga 
BBS you will find. Sure, it 
lacks most features of larger 
BBS programs, but it makes 
for a great way to quickly fa- 
miliarize yourself with bul- 
letin boards. 

Finally, don't overlook the 
vast array of BBS utilities, 
maintenance files, and BBS- 
specific games in the Amiga 
areas. An essential for all 
Amiga BBSs is Starlight 
Answering Machine, which 
appears on just about every 
network, frequently as 
STARLIGH T.LZH. When 
your BBS is down for main- 
tenance, this program lets 
callers know when to expect 
it back in operation. 

This is just a small sam- 
pling of BBSs and related 
files on the nets. Now thai 
I've warned you of the pitfalls 
ofsysop-hood, I can, In good 
conscience, recommend that 
you download a snazzy new 
BBS. Just be sure to set aside 
some time to run it. 

BIX 

800/227-2983 

617/354-4137 

CompuServe 

fi 14/457-0802 
800/848-8199 

GEnie 

800/038-9036 

Portal Communications 
Company 

408/973-9111 



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Now, your Amiga® 2000/3000 is a 

Computer, Fax Machine, Voice Mail System, 

and Answering Machine all at once! 



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PHONEPAK'S 
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VFX"" TECHNOLOGY 
TAKES FAX AND 
VOICE MALL INTO 
THE NEXT CENTURY! 

You know what a fax 
machine IS. You know 
what an answering 
machine DOES. 
You know how voice 
mail WORKS. 

Now imagine all that technology 
working together as a single comprehen- 
sive information system ail on one board. 

And that's just the beginning when it 
comes to what GVFs new PhonePak 
can do for your A2000/3000! 

PhonePak Handles All Calls 

With a PhonePak VFX system installed 
on each of your phone lines you can: 

► Receive faxes and store them on your 
Amiga's hard disk for on-screen view- 
ing and/or plain paper printing at your 
convenience. 

► Use PhonePak's advanced digital 
technology to record and playback 
voice messages. 

► Receive VFX"' messages combining 
voice and fax, from virtually any 
standard phone/fax machine. 

► View a fax onscreen and listen to a voice 
message about that fax at the same time 
— a GVP multimedia breakthrough! 

► Send faxes to one or more numbers 
immediately, or via PhonePak's built-in 
scheduler. 

► Record and play your own voice 
messages in standard IFF audio format 
using a fully configurable system of 
private user mailboxes. 

► Create customized databases for all 
your names, addresses, and telephone 
numbers. 

► Use PhonePak's exclusive Operator" 
script language or AREXX to control all 
dialing functions. 

And because PhonePak uses GVP's 
custom DMA chip technology for multi- 
tasking, you can keep right on working, 
even while PhonePak is taking calls. 



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PhonePak Saves Time 
and Money 

With PhonePak, you get a powerful, 
yet affordable, fax and voice messaging 
system that: 

• Can be learned in no time with the 
simple, step-by-step user's manual. 

• Completely eliminates costly and 
unwieldy thermal paper. 

• Offers scaled, nonscaled, and inverted 
viewing of faxes in both HiRes 
(640x400) or Workbench 2.0's 
SuperHiRes 1 1 280x400] mode. 

• Intelligently transfers incoming calls 
over Centrex " or other compatible 
phone networks. 

• Lets the caller decide whether to leave a 
message or speak with the called party. 

And, you get something no other fax 
machine or computerized fax product can 
offer — privacy for every fax received. 

PhonePak Helps You Work Smarter 

As you can see, anything fax machines, 

answering machines, and voicemail systems 

can do, PhonePak can do. 

Plus, PhonePak is the only technology that 

gives you fax and voice information 

combined. 

Whether you have a single phone line at 
home, or multiple lines in the office, 
once you install PhonePak, you'll wonder 
how you ever got along without it. 



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GVP's PhonePak can do lor you, 
call (215)337-8770 today. 



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KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 
USA. 

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United Stales. 

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Alt ether IradEmarks are the property of their respective owners. 

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Polished Publishing 



The annual World of Amiga show in Toronto introduced only a handful of new products this year, 
most of them coming from desktop-publishing pros Gold Disk (RS# 131) and Sofl-Logik (RS# 132). 

Gold Disk's PageSetter 3 and Professional Page 4 should be shipping by the time you read this. 
Pro Page 4, available to 3.0 owners for $75, promises full compatability with CBM's new AGA chip 
set, and includes a hot-linked paint program/graphics editor for making quick changes to images in 
your layout. And thanks to new import filters, you can incorporate graphics generated in IBM PC and 
Macintosh GIF, TIF, PCX, BMP and EPS formats, 

PageSetter 3 (S99), Gold Disk's entry-level page-layout program, provides an integrated text- and 
graphics-creation and layout solution, with its layout capabilities, word processor, spelling checker, 
and color paint program all linked together. The AGA-supporting package includes 120 pieces of hi- 
res structured clip art, 

Although details are not available for Pro Draw 4 as of this writing. Gold Disk anticipates a March 
release for the AGA-supportive software. Contact the company for details. 

Instead of upgrades, Soft-Logik announced some totally new programs. TypeSmith (S199.95), "the 
first Amiga font outline editor," promises professional editing capabilities. With it, you can edit and 
create PostScript, Compugraphic and Soft-Logik's own outline fonts. Whatever you create you can 
then save in any of these formats or in PostScript Type 3 format. Besides using TypeSmith's drawing 
tools to create faces, you can also import characters and symbols from structured-drawing software. 
TypeSmith supports both ARexx and Soft-Logik's HotLinks data-exchange system. 

Also totally new (albeit long-awaited) is Soft-Logik's Art Expressions! structured-draw program 
(S249.95). The software supports all the major standards, allowing you to convert and load files directly 
from Gold Disk's Pro Draw, Oxxi's Aegis Draw, Stylus' ProVector, and from the Mac's Adobe Illustrator. 
It also loads and saves its own PostScript files, Encapsulated PostScript, and IFF DR2D. Among the 
program's features are an array of basic shape and complex path tools, and editing functions that let 
you add, delete, move, join, split, and align points in objects. Vou can also close paths, create text ob- 
jects, change magnification levels, and throw in some special effects — aligning text to curves, warping 
it inside shapes, or blending objects and colors for shape metamorphosis and shading. 



Increased Force 

If you've got Great Yallev Products' 
G-Force 040 accelerator for "the A2000, 
you can increase the speed of your 
floating-point intensive operations sim- 
ply by adjusting the syntax of your 
start-up file. Product manager Gary 
Xusli explained that G-Force 040 own- 
ers should find the line in the user- 
startup file that reads: 

GvpCpuCtrl >nil: FastROM 
and change it to: 

GvpCpuCtrl >nil: FastROM MoveSSP 
According to GVP, this modification 

If You've Got It . . . 

Several shows will flaunt the tatest Amiga 
technology in the coming months. Here's the 
most recent listing: 

Image World West * 

February 2-4 

San Jose Convention Center 

San Jose, CA 

914/328-9157 

Image World— The Government Show * 
March 17-19 
Sheraton Washington 
Washington, D.C. 



Buy Monthly 

Want to build your collection of textures and 
backgrounds on a regular basis? Every month, 
DRC Sequential Graphics' releases a new Digital 
Collage package — two disks containing ten texture 
files, five 16-color full overscan backdrops, and five 
to ton DPainl motion clips. You can buy a 6-, 12-, 
or 24-month subscription for $30, $587, or $100, 
respectively. (RS# 1 29.) 



results in rendering-speed increases up 
to 550 percent. Nush notes that the 
newest version of the install disk (1 .2) will 
incorporate the new command into the 
user-startup file. (RS# 134.) 



914/328-9157 

World of Commodore 

April 2-4 

New York, New York 

416/285-5950 

NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) 
April 19-22 
Las Vegas, NV 
202/429-5300 

* Image World shows incorporate Video 
Expo and CAMMP 



Look, No Hands! 

After building its reputation with hand 
scanners, Migraph now releases the PS- 
400 Wand, a full-page (8-V=Xl4-inch) 
monochrome scanner. According to Mi- 
graph, the wand offers many of the advan- 
tages of a flatbed scanner (including an 




Migraph takes a hands-oH approach 
with its PS- 400 Wand scanner 

optional S249 sheet feeder to process sev- 
eral pages automatically) at a lower price. 
ilie PS-400 offers four dither patterns for 
scanning colors and halftones, including 
an 8x8 pattern that provides up to 256 
gray scales via software conversion, plus a 
line-art/text setting, three text-scanning 
resolutions (200, 300, and 400 dpi), and 
3 1 resolutions for image scanning (from 
100 to 400 dpi in 10 dpi increments). 

The Wand comes bundled with Mi- 
graph's Touch-Up software for S799: for 
another $100 you also get Migraph's Op- 
tical Character Recognition (OCR) soft- 
ware. .And if you already own a Migraph 
or Golden Image hand scanner, you can 
trade up at a special price directlv tlirough 
Migraph. (RS# 128.) 



Minding The Store 

Running low on cache? When your next pay- 
check comes in, you might part with a few bucks 
for Silicon Prairie's HyperCache IS49.95), a file- 
system and device accelerator. 

HyperCache Professional was designed to 
work with any device, regardless of ils type or the 
file system you use. Silicon Prairie has tested the 
software on equipment ranging from C Ltd.'s 
controllers lo the latest CD-ROM systems. And il 
reports success, particularly with OidFileSystem, 
FastFileSyslem (all versions), CrossDOS, Multi- 
DOS, and Commodore's A590. Accelerated sys- 
tems show the greatest benefit, and 68030/68040 
versions are available as well. 

The software automatically configures itself to 
a 51 2K cache, which you can adjust. In addition. 
you can aftai the qi ometry In terms ol the num- 
ber ui lines, sets, and prefetch, (RS# 130.) 



12 February 1993 



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Digital Sound Studio 

The Affordable Answer to Your 
Audio Dreams 

Record, Edit, Compose . . . 

With a high-quality stereo sound sampler, 
A fast, powerful, easy-to-use sound editor, 
And a self-contained 4-track sequencer. 
For all the sound effects and music you 
could ever imagine. 

► Record sound samples from any 
source, including voices, noise, and 
pre-recorded instruments, to create 
your own instruments and effects. 

► Edit sounds quickly in real time. 
Add effects like reverb and echo, run 
sounds backward, alter wave forms, 
cut and paste sound segments, create 
loops, eliminate pops and scratches. 

► Compose easily using the DSS 
4-track sequencer and your Amiga or 
MIDI keyboard. Draw from up to 31 
instruments at a time, in up to four 
octaves with 8 different variable 
effects. Mix and modify sounds in 
real time as you compose, through 
direct interface with the sound editor. 

DSS stretches the outer limits of 8-bit 
sound 

• Create your own 4-track, self-play- 
ing musical compositions. 

• Make soundtracks for home video, 
animation or visual presentations 
complete with voice-over, sound 
effects and music. 

• Analyze voice patterns and stereo 
separation. 

• Analyze graphic 
equalization of 
real-time sound. 

• Remove "pops" from 
old phonograph recordings. 

• Create custom instruments and 
sound effects by collecting and/or 
modifying pre-recorded instruments, 
voice, or sounds from any source, and 
use them in your own compositions. 

• Save your sound and music to disk 
or send it out via modem for replay on 
any Amiga. 



Check nut these unparalleled features 

v' AmigaDOS 2.0 compatible; 
written in assembly language. 

V Multi-tasking operation. 

V 68020 and 68030 compatible. 

V Comprehensive tutorial manual 
helps even beginners get started right 
away. 

V Intuition-based graphic interface 
makes operation easy. 

V MIDI-in capability. 

V Direct interface between 
sequencer and editor. 

y" Hold 31 sound samples in memory 
at once — all shown on screen so they 
are easy to manipulate. 

V Effects and processing capabilities 
include echo, mix, filter, re-sample, 
sound data inversion, playing sounds 
backwards, loops, fade-in/fade-out 
and more. 

V Manipulate sound samples 
in real time, as you listen. 

v' Create sampled instruments 
with 1, 3 and 5 octaves. 

V HIFI recording for highest quality 
playback. 

V Controls for faster/slower playback 
and filtering high frequencies during 
playback. 

V Load and save samples, songs and 
instruments in multiple formats, 

B I V Multiple 
| effects for 
each note. 

V Stereo and 

monophonic 
operation. Also convert mono to 
stereo or separate stereo. 

</ Auto-playing music modules. 





V Real-time oscilloscope and 

spectrum analysis. 

V Real-time reverberation. 

V Graphic editing of wave forms 
through easy-to-use functions, 
including zoom in/out and precision 
controls for position, frequency and 
amplitude. 

/ Draw sound waves freehand using 
the mouse. 

^ Direct editing of individual sample 
numeric values. 

V Maximum recording speed of 
51,000 samples/second (38,908 
samples/second in stereo). 

v' Savable Preference settings. 

V Saves in IFF, SONTX or RAW 
formats. 

v' Compatible with SoundTracker, 
NoiseTracker and SoundFX modules. 




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600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406 

For more information or your nearest GVP 
dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. 
Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 



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Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodofe-Amiga H Inc. 



V E R S C A N 



Making the Upgrade 

On the upgrade log this month are a 
language, a directory utility, and a fax 
modem. 

Blitz BASIC has been enhanced with 
an extended command set for writing 
entertainment software, plus 300 new 
commands for applications developers. 
Now handled by Acid Software. Blitz 
BASIC 2 ($159) supports C-type struc- 
tures, macros, and linked lists. A library 
management system lets you add your 
own commands and import others from 
such standard Amiga libraries as midi.li- 
brary, arp. library, and so on. Blitz 2 com- 
piles source code into small, 100-percent 
machine-code stand-alone programs. 
The upgrade features an inline assem- 
bler and supports recursive procedure 
and function calls, In addition, it comes 
with an applications designer and live 
arcade games. (RS# 135.) 

AGA comparability is first on the list of 
new features for INOVAtronics' popular 
Directory OPUS 4.0 disk- and Eile-man- 
agement program. After that come in- 
creased audio- and image-lile support, 
greater customizability, and a more flexi- 
ble, intuitive interlace. ARexx support has 



been expanded to encompass more than 
1 00 commands, and a new hotkey feature 
lets you launch any Amiga application 
from the keyboard so long as OPUS is ei- 
ther running or iconilied. New print fa- 
cilities let you output individual frames 
from full screen and brush animations, A 




OPUS 4 gives you more of what you buy 
a directory utility for. 

font-view facility lets you print an entire 
alphabet of any' font. (RS# 136.) 

Users of Supra'a SupraFAXModem 

v32 and v32bis can upgrade to the latest 



chips, which offer such enhancements 
and new features as error-correction 
mode (ECM) and The Silent Answer. 
ECM ensures the accuracy of fax trans- 
missions when used with fax software 
(such as FaxTalk Plus) that supports it. 

With The Silent Answer, you can use a 
single telephone line for both voice and 
fax communication. If the KAXModem 
detects fax "CNG" tones on an incoming 
call, it routes the call to the fax software. 
Otherwise, the modem sits silently on 
the line while you pick up the call. This 
free upgrade also improves busv-signal 
recognition, &V modem settings, v32/ 
v32bis negotiation, and more. 

For an additional S49, those who have 
Caller ID capabilities (available through 
many local telephone companies) can 
identify incoming calls by date, time, and 
telephone number prior to answering. 

Because of a reported high demand for 
this upgrade, it is not being made avail- 
able to call-in customers: You must order 
it through the Supra forum on Com- 
puServe (type GO SUPRA to enter the 
forum), Supra's BBS (503/967-2444), or 
by writing to the corporation. (RS# 137.) 



Future Shows Amiga Bright in Britain 

LONDON, ENGLAND— November saw the Future Publishing 16-bit show at Earl's Court in London, 
which seemed at first to be nothing more than a competition amongst the exhibitors to see who had 
the loudest PA system. 

Commodore's presence was as exciting as it was varied. Center stage was shared by the rapidly 
expanding selection of CDTV titles, and the A4000 and A1200 ranges. The A1200s pricing is aggressive 
by British standards, C400 buying a single-floppy, 2MB machine, and it is clear that CBM has high hopes 
for ils newest fledgling. Power users and spotty games players dribbled in unison over the A4000, which 
demonstrated just how fast DPaint IV can run. 

Ocean Software has tied up several major licences, with such titles as WWF European Rampage 
(those nice men in leotards attempt to knock the living daylights out of their European counterparts). 
Lethal Weapon, and Universal Monsters (which brings Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and other 
favorites back to the small screen). (RS# 120.) 

Domark had various new products on display, including version 2 of 3-D Construction Kit, which claims 
to offer home virtual reality and a whole host of improvements over the original. Rampart, a new game, 
combines strategy with destruction for an effect described as "like playing Tetris with cannons." AV8B Har- 
rier Assault promises ai multirole strategic, tactical, and operational gameplay scenario. (RS# 121.) 

Gremlin has been busy producing Nigel Hansen's World Championship, a Formula One racing game 
that offers 16 different circuits. For those who prefer to race on the highway, Lotus 3 — The Ultimate 
Challenge provides some great arcade or competition driving, along with a course designer [RS# 1 22.) 

Psygnosis is ready to release Lemmings II, which promises to be just as successful as the original. 
Also due out soon are Bill's Tomato Game, an indescribably strange affair in which you assist a tomato 
across a screenful of obstacles with portable fans, springs, and so on, and Walker, a shoot-em-up with 
the roles reversed: you defend your robotic walker from a human onslaught. (RS# 123.) 

Serious uses for the Amiga were also represented. Digita International launched Wordworth 2, a mul- 
tiloatiired won I processor with B sharp display and good print output even on inexpensive |n rv.r.'i s (RS* 
1 24.) New Dimensions, which is seeking a US distributor, demonstrated the excellent Technosound eight- 
bit sampling system (RS# 125). Two new scanners, one hand-held and one color, were also on display. 

The Amiga's near domination of the European leisure computer market is now more evident than 
ever. What is clear is that Commodore at least has its pricing right and software producers have re- 
sponded to increasing sales. With the new 32-bit machines and continuing strong sales of the first gen- 
eration Amigas, the future is so bright I've got to buy shares! 

— Stuart Menges 



What's Your Vector? 

Wesson International has three new 
add-on sector disks (S 19.95 each) for its 
Tracon Air Traffic Control Simulator. 
The new disks — Canada, The Pacific, 
and Australia — include a total of 23 in- 
ternational sectors designed to operate 
with Tracon II. 

The Canadian Sector Disk contains 
airspace for Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, 
Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and An- 
chorage, Alaska. Included on (he Pacific 
Sector Disk are Tokyo, Manila, Taipei, 
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and three 
Hawaiian sectors — Hawaii, Oahu, and 
Kauai. The Australian Sector Disk, de- 
signed by Australian Air Traffic Control 
instructors, includes Sydney, Melbourne, 
Adelaide, Perth, and Brisbaine, as well as 
three New Zealand sectors — Wellington, 
Auckland, and Christchurch. 

Each of these disks also includes com- 
plete voice files and customized aircraft 
files appropriate to the location to pro- 
vide the user with a more realistic traffic 
mix for each sector and airport. 
(RS# 133.) 

Send news, new products, and network 
information to Overscan, AmigaWorld 
Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 
03458. ■ 



14 January 1992 




- 

Introducing ImageFX ... |bm 

No professional art department should be without it 

Only ImageFX gives your imagination total image processing freedom. 



Whatever visual medium you 
work in — photography, graphics, 
video, animation — ImageFX is the 
one tool you absolutely must own! 





Carsmear by Mike Vunck 



It's like having a professional art 
department at your fingertips. 

ImageFX is faster, easier to use, more 
expandable, more adaptable and 
more powerful (ban any other product 
of its kind for the Amiga®. 

Here are just a few ways ImageFX 
expands your visual horizons: 

■*■ Scan in or framegrab from a full 
range of image capturing devices 
directly into your Amiga. 

■*■ Use your Amiga as an image 
prepress, color correction 
system including, CMYK, 
RGB.IlSY'andYlJV. 

* Digitally retouch any image 
with the most complete set of 
filters, color gradients, image 
distortions, masks, and text 
handling tools available. 



*■ Automatically convert image 
files to/from over 20 different 
file formats. 
* Create true, full motion poly- 
morphic "morphing" animation just like they use in 
movies, commercials and music videos. 



•k Generate single and dual 
image morphs; wave, rip- 
ple and spiral effects; 
water and glass-like dis- 
tortions; and a wide range 
of 24-bit transitions. 

-*- Make your own add-on 
features with full ARexx™ 
and C programming 
language support. 

■*• Enjoy near "real time" 
painting in 24-bit color. 

ImageFX is the most exciting 
and versatile full color, image 
processing and enhancement 
system ever made. 

You owe it to your im^tma- 
QontDbuytm^eFX 



Image Processing 

* Hcjtionttl I'nim.sjnj' 

* tafrABasing 

* Composite Imaging 
*KGB, CMYK, HVS Adjustments 

* Contrast, Gamma UljiLstmcnt 

Special Effects 
*FuD Motion Morphs 

* Singk'/Ihd Image Morphs 

* 2-i-liii Transitions 

* Vans :u«l Ripple Efleds 

* Spiral Hals 
*\Y;ikT/G!;Lss Distortion 

Image Rendering 

* Amiga, ECSWiA Modes 

+ iivvi-i-:.ix:i\.Gii- 

* Multiple Dither Controls 
*rV24,FC24,EGS 24-Bit Output 

...and much more 



Give your Amiga graphks and 
animations new magical powers 
— at an affordable price! 
If you need ImageFX morphing 
power alone, GneMorph is for you. 

GneMorph transforms any image, or 
images, from one to another quickly, easily 
and with the professional quality "morph" 
results you see ol the movies and on TV. 

With GneMorph you can: 

* Warp single or motion images, create full 
motion morphs, merge scenes, and per- 
form digital dissolves. 

* Set different speeds for different ports of 
the morph. 



* Work quickly and easily with Amiga style 
controls, then out- 
put tftrectry to any 
Amiga, DOT", or 
HAM-F" systems 
— including 
24-bit display 
boards like GVPs 
IV24™. 



Remember: When you're in the market 
For morphing, and only morphing, 
GneMorph is the maximum performance 
morph power. 

GneMorph is the must-buy 
morph software. 



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other trademark* are lite property nf their respective owners. 




Etnd IS J t .ire trademarks of Great Valley I'nxluct.s, 

£ Copyright 1991 Great Valley Products. ]m 



HGVP 




For more information or your nearest 
GVP Dealer, phone 2IS-337-8770 today. 
For technical information call 215-354-9495 

GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS, INC. PHONE 215»33 7«S770 
600 CLARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 U.S.A. FAX 21 5« 337-9922 
Circle 1 on Reader Service card. 




Final Copy II produces high quality, 
professional looking documents. It 
combines advanced word processing 
features, easy-to-use page layout 
capabilities, and state-of-the-art printing 
technology into one convenient program. 

While other programs claim to have 
quality printing, Final Copy II is the only 
word processor on the Amiga that will 
produce excellent quality printouts on any 
Workbench {1 .3, 2.0 or higher J supported 
graphic printer. If you have a PostScript 
printer, Final Copy II is the only word 
processor on the Amiga that has true 
WYSIWYG PostScript print capabilities - 
other programs limit you to a few fonts 
and a limited number of sizes. With Final 
Copy II you get the same great looking 
output produced in expensive desktop 
publishing programs. 



Final Copy IT's word processing features 
include: 144,000 word speller; 1.4 million 
response thesaurus; automatir 
hyphenation; named paragrai. 
sheets; master pages; mail-mer^ 
multiple newspaper style column-,: 
and replace; header and footer support; 
left, right, center and decimal tabs; 
paragraph justification; and automatic 
date, time, and page number insertion. 

Final Copy Il's graphic features include: 
object-oriented, structured tools for 
drawing boxes, ovals, lines, arrow-tipped 
lines, and rounded cornered boxes; 
graphic object color fill, line weight and 
line color; ability to import IFF ILBM 
pictures and brushes including 24 hit 
ILBM and HAM; real-time text flow 
around any graphic; graphic sizing; 
crapping; object locking; and graphic 
depth arranging. 



Final Cop , . 
include: 35 outline tv 



dths; underline, strikethru. and small 
__ps styles; superscript and subscripts; 
positive and negative text obliqing; and 
color text. 

Final Copy Il's user interface features 
include: command ribbon; real-time 
scrolling; ARexx port; magnified and 
reduced editable page views; user 
preferences; Wli 2.0 look and feel; mouse 
zooming; mouse document panning; hori- 
zontal and vertical rulers, and page guides. 

Your documents will look more polished 
and professional than ever before. Final 
Copy 11 is an excellent investment for your 

software library. 



SoftWood, Inc. 

P.O. Box 50178 • Phoenix, Arizona 85076 

1(800)247-8314 



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Legibility 



& 



Readability 



Typographic clarity comes in two fla- 
vors: fegibffity and reaoabfitty. Even 
though much of the typographic 
community treats them as such, they 
are not interchangeable terms Differ- 
ent typefaces hove von/lag degrees of 
legitwlth/; while typography should be 
readable. 

■ '.-"jibiiiiy \s gonefot) conridered to 
be the ability to drstingursh one fetter 
from another in a ponicular typeface 
design. Readability, on the 
other hand, is the degree of 
ease with which typography 
can be read, As a result, ft is 
possible to use a highly leg- 
ibte typeface arid create un- 
readable typography. 
While carefully constructed, 
readable typography can- 
not restore mJsshg legibility 
to a typeface design, it can )m 
enhance the message pre- ■ 
seated by a less than ideal S 
typeface. 

For practiced purposes, the 
definilioro are not oil that impor- 
tant. What is Important is that you 
ore aware ot the factors thai can 
affect typeface legfoiSty, and the 
ways readability can be enhanced - 
or reduced - through typographic or 
rcnoement. 



Studies and Reports 

Most of us have heard about legJ- 
bilily and readability studies and their 
resulting reports You know, the ones 
that typophites refer to when they dis- 
cuss legibility or readability and sup- 
posedly answer all questions about 
these two topics. Wet), referring to 
these reports and actually trying to use 
them can be two very different things. 
In fact, just trying to find them Is diffi- 
cult. 

They are not in neatly bound vol- 
umes readily purchased ot the local 
bookstore. Chances ore. unless you 
live in a big city, your public library 
doesn't have them, Teachers of the 
communication arts do not often 
make them available to their stu- 
dents, and manufaclufers of type- 
setting and printing equipment do 
not include them in thetr corpo- 
rate libraries. 

So what and where are 
these mythical studies? For 
the most part, they were 
published as articles in 

trade joumate and schol- 
arly magazines, and they 
were not normalry intended for ty- 
pographers or graphic communica- 
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SAS/C 6.0 Development System 



C language 

Software 

development. 



SAS Institute, $399; 

$197.50 with educational discount. 

Hard-drive installable. 

Not copy protected. 



The SAS/C 6.0 Development System from 
SAS Institute is the most complete C de- 
velopment system for the Amiga. The 
package has everything you need to write 
top-notch (and not so top-notch) programs, in- 
cluding a compiler, an assembler, a linker, an 
optimizer, a text editor, a debugger, header files, 
on-line help, and utilities. 

Installation is a breeze. The package uses Com- 
modore's new menu-driven Installer utility, and 
there are several options that let you select exactly 
what is installed. Although the manual recom- 
mends you have a hard disk, you can install a min- 
imal system on an .Amiga with only two floppy 
drives. If you have enough hard-disk space, I rec- 
ommend you avoid installing the compressed 
headers. This takes a long time, because the in- 
staller compresses the headers as it stores them on 
your drive. Besides, having uncompressed headers 
around means you can browse through them when 
you need to look up a structure, tag, or prototype. 
If you are upgrading from SAS/C 5.10 and use 
TOUCH and WC, I suggest that you save these to 
the SC:c directory alter installation and before you 
wipe out the older version, as these utilities are not 
included in the new package. 

A Major Makeover 

If you are used to SAS/C 5.10 or earlier lattice ver- 
sions, you will first notice that everything has changed 
in 6.0. .All Lattice references are gone. The front-end 
driver, LC, has been replaced with SC, which handles 
compiling, linking, and library, symbol-table, and pro- 
totype generation. BLINK, the overlay linker, is now 
SLINK, and LMK, the make utility, is now SMAKE. 
Previous cryptic command-line options have been 
mercifully replaced with Amiga ToolType-style op- 
tions that are easier to remember. 



To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the 
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 114. 



2.0 compatible. 

Accelerator compatible. 

Minimum system: 512K RAM, two floppy drives. 

Recommended system: 4MB RAM, hard drive. 

The mouse-driven SCOFFS utility allows you to 
interactively modify all compiler and linker options. 
For example, to automatically generate prototypes 
for all of your functions, just run SCOPTS, set the 
Generate Prototypes option, save your settings, and 
build. Of course, you can change these options from 
the command line as well. The only thing missing 
here is keyboard control of SCOPTS; if you don't set 
options directly from the Shell you have to use the 
mouse. 

The two-pass compiler executables (LCI and 
LC2) and the global optimizer (CO) have been re- 
placed with shared libraries, allowing them to re- 
main loaded even when not in use. A peephole op- 
timizer, w : hich streamlines sections of assembler 
code lor specific processors, has also been added. 
Precompiled headers have been replaced with Glo- 
bal Symbol "Fables (GSTs), which hang around in 
memory until needed. If you have enough RAM, us- 
ing GSTs means the compiler never has to load and 
parse your header files, making life easier (and 
faster!) for those without hard disks. The libraries 
and GSTs are automatically unloaded from the sys- 
tem as needed when memory gets low. SC and 
SLINK are pure so you can make them resident. 

CPR, the source-level debugger, has been im- 
proved substantially and is Workbench 2.0-compli- 
ant. Some new functions have also been added, in- 
cluding support for debugging multithreaded 
programs and cross debugging; you can connect 
two Amiga with a null-modem and debug with 
CPR on the second. As an added bonus, if you run 
Enforcer, Bryce Nesbitl's popular debugging tool 
that uses the MMU of a 68020 or greater CPU to 
trap bad memory accesses (called hits), CPR auto- 
matically stops where the hit occurred. As quality 
expectations increase, users will begin to reject 
software that insists on causing Enforcer hits, so 
this is an excellent feature. As Amiga developers 
and Commodore's programmers will tell you: "No 
program should cause an Enforcer hit, ever!" 

SE, the screen editor, has been enhanced and 



18 February 1993 




now provides extensive ARexx control, allowing 
you to compile files and build projects using 
ARexx scripts. A new utility, SCMSG, is an ARexx- 
controllable message browser that you can config- 
ure to pop up automatically when errors or warn- 
ings occur. You can also configure it to run SE or 
your favorite ARexx-controllable editor and place 
the cursor on the offending line when you select 
a message from its window. 

Compliant and Vigilant 

Probably the best new feature is the inclusion of 
ANSI-compliant standard C libraries and headers. 
Now you can port from and to UNIX without hav- 
ing to create replacements for missing functions. 
You can even use an option that tells the compiler 
to notify you if you stray a bit from true ANSI con- 
formance. 

Also included are the latest 2.0 header files from 
Commodore. These are perfectly usable under 1.3 
as well, as long as you don't try to use 2. ((-specific 
features without first verifying that your program is 
running under 2.0. 

In addition, SAS/C conies with some utilities and 
icons to facilitate program development under 
Workbench. One utility sets up an empty directory 
with default options and a project file. To build your 
project, just double-click on your project icon to in- 
voke SMAKE. Icons for running SCOPTS and CPR 
are also provided. 

Many less obvious enhancements have been in- 
corporated, as well, such as automatic Library ini- 
tialization, user auto-inil functions, and function 
inlining. Automatic library initialization forces the 
startup code to handle opening and closing li- 
braries for you. Auto-init and auto-exit functions 
let you specify functions which are called before 
main() and after exitf ), providing more flexible ini- 
tialization and belter error-handling. Function in- 
lining lets you write functions that are substituted, 
much like macros, directly into the code at com- 
pile time. 

Several standard startup modules have been in- 
cluded, along with source, that allow development 
of different types of programs: CT8S is used for resi- 
dentable programs; cback is used for programs that 
run and detach themselves from the Shell, eliminat- 
ing the use of loader utilities such as runback; and 
catch is used while debugging your program and will 
generate a trace of your code as it runs. 




Pragmas, which are provided for the Amiga stan- The SAS/C 6.0 
dard libraries, can be used to bypass the stubs found Development 
in amiga.lib. This can speed up your program and System sets an 
reduce code size immensely, and is required when Amiga standard. 
writing pure residentable code. 

When you get right down to it, efficiency is im- 
portant, and in this respect you won't be disap- 
pointed. Compiling and linking are much faster 
than before, mostly because of the global symbol 
tables and memory-resident shared libraries. 
About the only thing that needs to be loaded when 
you compile is your source. But the actual cocle 
generation has been improved and sped up, and 
the linker, which was quick before, is now very fast! 
Naturally, the more memory you have, the faster 
it will work. 

Hand Holding Off and On Line 

The documentation is terrific. It comes in two large 
binders. One contains information on the compiler 
and development tools, error messages, and Amiga- 
specific features, and the other houses a complete 
library reference. All information is well-indexed 
and organized. There are even sections that help 
you port programs from Lattice and Manx environ- 
ments. Also supplied is a smaller booklet with brief 
listings of all the compiler options, CPR functions, 
and library functions, with references to specific 
pages in (lie manuals. This makes it very easy to 
look up functions without consulting an index. 

For faster answers, try the new on-line help facil- 
ity. SAS/C is shipped with AmigaGuide, Com- 
modore's hypertext help program, and all the prim- 
ed documentation is available in various guide files. 
You can look up compiler options, CPR functions, 
messages, utility descriptions, and library functions, 
all from within SE and CPR or with an included 
pop-up help utility. You can even browse header 
files and global symbol tables! 

SAS/C is a fast, full-featured C development sys- 
tem from a company that stands behind the Amiga 
and provides quality software and support. If you 
program in C on the Amiga, from simple ANSI- 
compliant Shell utilities to full-blown multithreaded 
Workbench applications, there is no substitute to 
the SAS/C 6.0 Development System. 

— Paul Miller *■ 



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R E V I K W S 



Scala Multimedia 200 



Professional 

multimedia 

production, 

creation, and 

development. 



Scala, S495. 

Hard-drive installable. 
Copy protected with dongle. 
2.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 



If the software battles of the last decade 
were fought over offering belter meth- 
ods of processing data, the industry wars 

of the '90s will be fought over presenting 



Minimum system: 2MB RAM, 
1MB chip RAM, hard drive. 
Recommended system: 3MB+ RAM, 

1MB+ chip RAM, hard drive, 

accelerator. 

that information in new and exciting 
wavs. Suddenly graphics, sound, and an- 
imation are the tools of the trade, and 
companies connect with their audiences 





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Scala Multimedia 200 lets you easily 
reorganize your production. 

only if they present the material in an 
engaging way. Full-motion video, still- 
video snapshots, laserdiscs, ancl CD- 
quality sound have become the crucial 
commodities in tiie graphics-presenta- 
tion market. 

Amiga presentation software takes an- 
other great leap forward in these vital ar- 
eas with Scala Multimedia 200 (MM200). 
This program redefines the standard in 
power and ease of use not just for Ami- 
gas, but for all computer platforms. 

Scala Multimedia is a great improve- 
ment over the first release. Where the 
original was adept at creating stand- 
alone applications with moving text and 
gorgeous backgrounds for video titling, 
the new version is a real tool For multi- 
media professionals. Plus, it's even eas- 
ier to use. It can create everything from 
information-kiosk displays with impres- 
sive laserdisc video sequences to inter- 
active-training programs with synchro- 
nized, customized voice-overs to 
business presentations with Xapshot 
photographic backgrounds. It takes a 
powerful system to run Scala, but the 
program gives back a lot more than it 
asks for. 

EXCELLENT EXPANSION 

The most significant improvement over 
the original Scala is MM200's system for 
easy control of such specialized input 
sources as laserdiscs, still-video players 
(Canon's Xapshot, for example), MIDI 
playback, and CD'IV audio. The Scala 
EX external program system lets you 
load special modules that link powerful 
devices to the easy-to-use interface. The 
publishers have promised (o follow up 
with new modules, opening up a larger- 
world of fantastic audio and video, in- 
cluding VTRs and 24-bit graphics 
boards. Putting such heavy-duty hard- 
ware in the hands of Amiga users is no 
small matter. Because video is rapidly 
becoming the new literacy, this develop- 
ment has the potential to unleash a big- 1 



20 Febman 1993 



Even if you didn't, Proper Grammar II 
can help you write as if you did. 



Proper Grammar II is an easy-to-use 
proofreading tool designed to help 
you improve your writing. It takes the 
guess work out of good grammar by 
detecting 95% of all writing errors. 
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errors, indicates how to correct them, 
and lets you decide whether to make 
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grammar skills. Grammar usage is a 
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SUPPORTS: 

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• Pro Write™ 

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ger revolution than desktop publishing. 
Another important addition is the 
greatly enhanced sound support. Where 
the original Scala Fell down in this area, 
the new version has more than compen- 
sated. It can play 8SVX samples, SMUS 
songs, or DSS/SoundTracker modules 
and can manipulate balance, volume, 
speed, Fade in, Fade out, and more. With 
a sampler and a CDTV you can overlay 
customized voice-overs on top of 
exquisite, high-quality audio, and even 
add sound effects to the mix. 



The editing screen shows some im- 
pressive improvements, as well. Its layout 
is still thoughtfully organized, and its 
functioning is still smooth as silk, but the 
scrolling is cleaner, Text flies across the 
screen better than before, even on unac- 
celerated systems. This is the first inter- 
Face I've seen that lacks pull-down menus 
but does not suffer For it. The interface 
is more Flexible than before, and now 
comes with user-configurable menus. 
You can create your own paths between 
menus, streamlining the design process. 



Ami-Back takes care of your data. 

Ami-Back Tools takes care of 

the drives you store it on. 



The best way to protect 
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Maybe a friend already gave you that 
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on your own. Either way, keeping that 
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The best way to back up your data is to 
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Back's sharp interface, making the kind 
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across multiple tapes. Scheduling unattended 
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and even online help. And a heck of a lot more. 
Join the thousands of users worldwide who have 
found Ami-Back to be the only backup program 
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Competitive Upgrade 



Moonlighter Software Development, Inc., is 

offering a competitive upgrade path to 

Ami-Back and Ami-Back Tools. 

To upgrade to Ami-Back v2.0, users of any 
other backup program may send their orignal 

disk and $39 + S3 shipping and handling. 
To upgrade to Ami-Back Tools, users of any 

other disk utilities program may send dieir 
original disk and $39 + S3 s&h. 

For orders from outside the U.S., please 

enclose S7 for shipping and handling, and 

send payment in U.S. funds. Credit card or 

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essential for trouble-free computing. 

If you're like most computer users you don't store 
data simply for the pleasure of having data, you 
constantly use is. That usage takes sts toll on your 
system. Files become fragmented and sometimes 
lost. System performaec is degraded. 
Productivity is out the window. Enter Ami-Back 
Tools, a collection of disk utilities designed to 
keep your floppy and hard drives performing 
flawlessly. The CP, a sophisticated disk 
optimizer ensures your data is stored as efficiently 
as possible, and the Disk Analyst examines your 
disks for potential problems and repairs them 
when the need arises. 91 1 -Recovery recovers 
deleted data from crashed disks, while the 
Antiseptic clears your disk of everything. The 
Lab Test lets you check and compare checksums 
for file corruption and virus protection, AH these 
programs are tied together by the Administrator 
which allows you to set up, schedule, and perform 
any or all of these tests with unmatched ease and 
ultimate flexibility. 

Ami-Back $ 79.95 msrp 

Ami-Back Tools $ 79.95 msrp 

Ami-Back Plus Tools $ 129.95 msrp 



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This intuitive editing system has been 
further improved with the addition of 
special video effects, better button sup- 
port, and a preview mode called Shuffler. 

The new video effects make text and 
graphics fly on and off the screen in in- 
teresting ways and control the way 
screens overlap one another. Scala now 
provides a full plate of more than 80 
wipes and fades, such as flow, stretch, 
and cube. Each effect is selected through 
an icon with a shorthand representation 
of the effect. Scala Inc. advertises this 
striking array of effects as "the software 
toaster." While this claim is a trifle exag- 
gerated, the results are undeniable. It's 
hard to believe that these incredible ef- 
fects are all happening without addition- 
al hardware. 

The new button system simplifies 
making screen hot spots, setting vari- 
ables, and branching through the pro- 
gram. Creating a branch to a page causes 
the editor to display the new page in 
miniature, giving you immediate feed- 
back. You can launch new scripts or 
whole programs from the buttons, 
MM200 tloes not have all the program- 
ming resources of such programs as Can- 
Do (INOVAtronics) or AmigaVision 
(Commodore), but it is easier to use. 

The very useful Shuffler lets you view 
the whole presentation in miniature. It 
provides a strong sense of continuity by 
placing as many as 1 12 pictures on the 
screen at once, storyboard style. You can 
then drag and shuffle these miniatures 
for instant script changes. 

Quicker Loads 

Most multimedia systems suffer from 
long load times. The sense of immediacy 
and involvement are lost if the user has 
to sit through an extended pause while 
the system loads large sound and anima- 
tion files. Scala Multimedia addresses 
this with a package of speed techniques 
such as buffering, planned preloading, 
and the ability to play animations and 
digital video directly from the hard 
drive. These features can really boost 
performance, especially on systems with 
a lot of RAM. 

Rounding out the package is support 
for ColorFonts, overscan, ARexx, Digital 
Creations* DCTY' and Commodore's new 
ACA chip set. A special utility converts an- 
imaiions, and another prints scripts. Two 
disks of demos provide an excellent tuto- 
rial and are a rich source of ideas. Tying 
the whole system together is a unique syn- 
chronization feature that lets you record 
the timing of the sound and video and EX 
input devices all in real time. 

All Scala scripts are editable text files. 
Power users can edit and even construct > 



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Unsurpassed Landscape Artistry! 



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User-friend [y "point and click" interface based on a camera/target model. 
Direct support for Firecracker, DCTV, and HAM-E. 
Save images as IFF, IFF24, Turbo Silver objects, and in 24 bit RGB for 
frame buffer output, or print directly from the program. 
User definable screen resolutions, including overscan. 
Couraud shading, combined with high resolution and interlace., produces 
near photographic-quality scenes of unparalleled beauty. 
Variable focal length "camera" lens, unlimited number of lighting posi- 
tions, dithering, roughness, and blend controls. 
User-defined color palette, night sky, stars, tree line, snow level, waves, 
haze levels, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, buildings, and roads. 
3-D wire frame preview saves time - modify the camera settings until you 
have the exact view you want. 

Upgrades available. Please call or write. 



Virtual Reality Laboratoriesj Inc. 



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their presentations using direct, low-lev- 
el commands. Each command is now 
properly documented in the manual, as 
well. 

The manual is comprehensive, well- 
written, and profusely illustrated. It has 
a tutorial, an extensive reference section, 
and (finally) an index. Appendices in- 
clude displays of the 17 fonts and 60 
backgrounds available. 

Unfortunately, this fast, fun program 
is not without flaws, and one flaw is seri- 
ous. First, all Amiga multitasking is de- 



feated while a presentation is running. 
Second, the program is copy protected 
with a dongle: a hardware key that plugs 
into the joystick port. If you ever lose I he 
hardware key, all work must stop until 
you order and receive a replacement I 
can understand the publishers protect- 
ing their product from theft by requiring 
the dongle for creating animations. But 
they also require the dongle for playback 
of the stand-alone applications, as well. 
This means that each run-time Scala pre- 
sentation must be sold with a hardware 




The Wait is Over ... 



The addition of A-Max II Plus to ReadySoft's acclaimed series of Macintosh emulators brings powerful new 

capabilities to your Amiga. AMax II and AMax II Plus are hardware and software combinations that once you 

supply Macintosh 1 2BK ROMs, run almost all Macintosh productivity software at full speed including Word, Excel, 

. Quo * XPress* and Illustrator*. A-Max II Plus is an internal card which may be easily inserted into a slot in your 

if Amiga 2000 or greater series computer. Once Installed, A-Max II Plus provides AppleTalk* serial port, MIDI 

' . t and disk compatJblity with the Macintosh. 

■ The A-Max 2.5 software also features: support for Amiga hard drives, mouse, keyboard, disk drives, serial and 
parallel ports, processor accelerators, RAM, all normal video modes and screen sizes, de-lnterlacers, playback 
of Macintosh digitized sounds, Apple tmageWriter* emulation for 9 and 24 pin Epson* compatible printers, 
and access to Macintosh SCSI peripherals through a hard drive controller's SCSI port. 



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key. I fear that this will limit the use of 
an otherwise excellent program. 

Out in Front 

Nevertheless, Scala Multimedia 200 is 
powerful multimedia contender and 
puts the Amiga squarely in the forefront 
as the price and performance leader of 
this critical field. I have used presenta- 
linii packages on all the major computer 
platforms, and Scala stands shoulder to 
shoulder with anything on the PC or 
Mac, and towers above most of them. 
Animation and text manipulation are 
breathtaking even on slow systems, and 
far smoother than ihe animations run- 
ning on even the fastest PCs and Macs. 
A considerable level of thought and 
planning went into this program. The 
best thing I can say about it is that it 
works just like you think it ought to. It's 
easy to build rich presentations without 
cracking the manual, and that's just 
about the highest praise I can give a user 
interface. 

— Daniel Greenberg 



PhonePak VFX 

Great Valley Products, S449. 
A2000, A3000. 

Internal, CPU slot connection. 
Installation: Easy 
Hard drive installable software 
Not copy-protected 
2.0 compatible 
Accelerator compatible 
Minimum system: 2MB of RAM. 
Recommended system: 2MB + of 

RAM, 10MB+ of hard-drive space 

for messages. 



Voice mail and fax management. 



A full-featured voice-mail and fax sys- 
tem, PhonePak VFX is one of those 
products you won't get really excited 
about until you start to work with it. 
Then you'll be hooked. 

While it can be used in a home envi- 
ronment, this hardware-and-software 
combination really shines as a business- 
productivity tool, saving you a great deal 
of time and money. In my office, I had 
three answering machines, each with its 
own dedicated phone line. With Phone- 
Pak, I no longer need them, and a single 
phone line handles calls for all three. Of 
course, I have to keep my Amiga on all 
the time, but a screen-blanker protects 
the monitor. 

One of the lines handled calls to for 
the Amiga Video-Graphics Guild, many 
of which involved only simple requests 



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for information and a return call. 
Thanks to PhonePak, such callers can 
now hear a recorded message about the 
AVG, have faxes of the information sent 
to them, or leave their names and ad- 
dresses to receive the information by 
mail. PhonePak eliminated a lot of re- 
turn calls for me, making it well worth 
the money. 

It also gives me more time to earn 
money. When I'm on a project deadline, 
I can't take stop to talk to anyone but my 
client. With PhonePak, I can give the 



client a special code number that in- 
structs the program to page me over the 
speakers connected to the Amiga. I can 
even make it seem like the call is being 
transferred, as the person on the other 
end will hear a simulated phone ringing. 
If you have Centrex or a compatible sys- 
tem, PhonePak can even route the calls 
to other phones. 

At its most basic, PhonePak is a sophis- 
ticated answering machine that records 
incoming messages as standard Amiga 
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PhonePak VFX automatically monitors, 
stores, and forwards your voice mail 
and faxes. 

messages consume about 10MB of stor- 
age space.) What makes it really stand 
out, however, is its voice-mail capabili- 
ties. Ilie voice mail gives the caller choic- 
es from a verbal menu. When she calls, 
a recorded voice tells her to press 1 now 
on her touch-tone phone if she's calling 
my production company, 2 if she's call- 
ing the AVG, 3 if she's calling my wife's 
magic company, or 4 or 5 for personal 
messages for either of us. Friends have 
special access numbers that page tis im- 
mediatelv. All calls are screened; I never 
hear the phone ringing. If a caller needs 
to talk to me, the system pages me. 

Mail Call 

The system is very easy to set up. After 
you pop in the board and plug in your 
phone lines, you determine the mailboxes 
you want. For each mailbox, you set the 
length of the incoming message and an 
optional password for access to it. You can 
also type a script in the transfer box for 
Centrex transfers or audio paging. The 
Operator script language, which can be 
used through ARcxx, lets you automate 
things in very sophisticated ways. The 
program even lets you specify whether 
you're in or out, and will not page you if 
you're away. For each mailbox, you also 
save a greeting for the software to play 
upon access. Recording is a breeze. Select 
the Local Connect menu option, pick up 
your phone, click on the record button, 
talk, and then press the stop button. 

The next step is to route the boxes in 
the switchboard. You can set up as many 
mailboxes and routes as you need. Use 
the Add Route menu option, enter a 
number of up to nine digits (a menu 
choice or extension), then click on the 
corresponding mailbox. When the caller 
presses the number, he is routed to the 
selected mailbox. 

PhonePak automatically detects and 

receives fax-machine calls, and it can 

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26 Febntan 1993 




Professional Digital Sound for 
Your Video, Music, and Radio 
Productions 




Finaiiy, true CD quality 16 bit audio 
is available for your Amiga! SunRize's 
new ADS 16 gives you eight tracks, plus a 
time code reader and a DSP chip. Included 
with the ADS 16 is Studio 16'- version 2.0. 
This new release of our popular 16 bit 
editing software puts a complete sound 
studio on your desk! 




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AD516 

The AD5 1 6 hardware pro- 
vides stereo in/out connectors, 
plus a SMPTE in. Just plug your 
VTR, CD player, radio, tape 
deck, or other audio source di- 
rectly in. Then record in stereo, 
direct to hard disk, with 16 bits 
at sampling rates up to 48,000 
samples per second. Plus, the 
AD516's efficient design 
allows 8 track playback direct 
from hard disk. The ADS 16 can 
synchronize and chase SMPTE 
time code at 24, 25, 29.97, and 
30 fps (drop or non-drop frame). 
Designed to exceptional audio 
standards, the AD516 of- 
fers 15Hz to 22KHz fre- 
quency response and 85dB 
dynamic range. 

Video Production 

The Video Toaster goes a 
long way towards solving your video 
problems. But what about sound? Do you 
want to do ADR or voice-overs? Do you 
need to synchronize background music with 
your productions? How do you add foot- 
steps, door knocks, and other 
sound effects to your video or 
animation? Do you need to 
fade, cross fade, or eliminate 
sections of audio? Can you 
edit your audio, or are you 
stuck with the first take? 
Studio 16 solves all these problems by 
turning your Amiga into a complete 
sound studio. With Studio 16's 
cue list and SMPTE support you 
can lock sounds frame accurately 
with your video. Audio triggers re 
liably, at the same spot, every time. Or 
you can slip your audio effects, trying them 
at different spots. And since Studio 16 
plays directly off hard disk, the number of 
sounds you can trigger is unlimited. 

Mixer and Meters 

Each of Studio 16's eight tracks can be 
metered and mixed. Unlike two track sys- 
tems. Studio 16 can combine multiple 
tracks with no generation loss. And it can 
record two tracks while playing up to eight! 



Waveform Editor 

The Studio 16 sound editor graphs the 
audio waveform and allows you to cut, 
copy, and paste audio. Up to eight samples 




can be edited per window. .And edits can 
be non-destructive or permanent. Zoom, 
scale, fade, reverse, echo, normalize, loop 
FFT, resamplc, and many other functions 
are available. Named regions can be de- 
fined and used in the cue list or transport 
modules. 




DSP Supercharger 

The ADS 1 6 includes a special sound 
coprocessor - the advanced 2105 DSP. The 
DSP allows Studio 16 to handle those eight 
tracks while performing real time mixing. 
The DSP can also do high quality 16 bit ef- 
fects such as echo, flange, delay and chorus. 

Low Prices, High Performance 

Studio 16 2.0 comes with either the 
AD5I6 (16 bit, 8 track, stereo, 
$1495 list) or the AD1012 
(12 bit, 4 track, mono. $595 
list). Also available is the 
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The Neunfa&it Amiga Graphics Stamiar 




I Create title screens combining 
scanned images, clip art and other 
elements using OPAL PAiNT's wide 
array of tools and modes. 




OpalPaint's image processing modes 
will alter any area or an entire image. 
More than apaintprogram, OpalPaint 
is a complete creative environment. 





OPALPAINT'S exclusive real- world 
Artist's Tools and paper types bring a 
new level of artistic creativity to the 
Amiga. 



—Amiga Computing Magazine 

"Undoubtedly the finest, most professional paint program to arrive on the Amiga." 

— Amiga Format Magazine 

— Camcorder Magazine 

"Professional quality at this price can't be turned away." 

—Amiga User International Magazine 

"OpalVision is an amazing delight." 

—Honk Tucker, Producer for Disney TV Animation 

"The verdict was unanimous —brilliant." 

—Amiga Shopper Magazine 

"OpalPaint is in my opinion the best paint program currently available in the United 
States for the Amiga." 

—The Amiga- Video Journal (AVID) 



The OpalVision Main Board 

i A true 24-Bit frame buffer and display device with 16.8 million colors available 
for every pixel. 

■ Uncompromised, 24-Bit higher-than-broadcast-quality. crystal-clear images. 

• Standard Amiga graphics and animations con appear in front of or behind 
OpalVision imoges on a pixel-by-pixel basis. 

■ Performs double-buffered 24-Bit and 15-Bit animation in medium and low 
resolution modes and 8-Bit double-buffered animation in all resolutions. 

i VLSI graphics coprocessor enables resolution changes, stencil modes, a host 
of transition effects and smooth scrolling between screens. 

i "Palette-Mapped" design updates screen colors in real-time. Fade pictures in 
and out and change their palettes on the fly. 

. Double buffered full 24-Bit, 1 5-Bit and 8-Bit true color modes, 24-Bit and 8-Brt palette- 
mapped display modes. Dual Playfield and Overlay Priority stencil modes. 

■ Priority mask definition specifies foreground/background areas in 24-Bit images 

> Microcode graphics processor for system control, priority switching, hardware 
scrolling and panning. 

> 20ns video switch to freely mix Amiga and OpalVision graphics. 

> Expansion connectors for available Framegrabber/Genlock and Scan-Rate 
Converter hardware modules. 

> Expansion socket for the "Roaster Chip." a live video special effects 
processor. 

> Automatically self-configures for NTSC or PAL operation. 

> 24-Bit RGB output with video bandwidth >7 MHz. Equipped with 1 ,5 MB 
of display RAM, 

• An internal card which operates in any Amiga computer with a video slot. 



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OpalPaint 

Everyone is excited about OpalPaint. In fact, nearly everyone who's spent any 
time using it says it's the finest, most professional paint program on the Amiga. 
And with good reason. It's Fast. Real-time. Full 24-Bit. OpalPaint gives you 
complete control over OpalVision's 16.8 million color palette. Includes a full- 
range of drawing tools and an expandable library of image-processing modes 
with adjustable parameters, complete texture-mapping capabilities, 
transparency and color gradients, multiple work modes, nozzle brushes, pre- 
defined palettes and many other comprehensive tools. Unique and powerful 
features like real-world "Artist's toots" and paper types, multiple stencil types, 
virtual memory support and compatibility with the pressure-sensitive Wacom 
drawing tablet provide a level of support for artistic creativity never before 
available on the Amiga. 

Opal Anim MATE 

Our powerful new animation player lets you run OpaiVision animations at rates 
of up to 60 frames per second. It works in 8, 12. 15, 18 and 24-Bit modes and 
features selectable screen sizes from 32 x 20 to 768 x 286 pixels. Features an 
easy Workbench interface, dynamic DMA allocation for best frame rates on 
slower machines and will play animations directly from a hard drive. Our delta 
compression feature creates small files and fast playback rates. Create 16- 
million color animations using your favorite 3D rendering package and play 
them back through OpaiVision! 

Also included are Opal Presents!, an icon-driven presentation program, 
OpaiVision Hot Key. a powerful and very useful image display utility and the 
world's first 24-Bit game. King of Karate. 



Amiga Developers Create OpaiVision Software 

OpaiVision displays oil standard IFF 24 images and is instantly compatible with 
virtually all Amiga 24-Bit software. At the same time, all of the important Amiga 
developers are creating new versions of their programs which directly support 
OpalVision-specific, advanced features. Here are just some of the titles that 
are already available or soon to be released: 

Activa International - Real 3D 

ASDG - Art Department Professional and Morph Plus 

Adspec Programming - Aladdin 4D 

Black Belt Systems - ImageMaster 

SC ALA - MulllMedla 200 and InfoChannel 

GVP - Image FX and Cine Morph 

Octree Software - Caligart 24 

RGB Computer & Video - AmiLink Video Editing Products 

Amazing Computers - Transporter single frame recording software 

Texture City - Texture City 24-Bit image libraries 

TecSoft • TV Point 

Progressive Peripherals and Software - 3D Professional 

OpaiVision also works with the Amiga 4000 and the AGA chipset! 



The OpaiVision Main Board is the core of a complete video system. 

Enhancement Modules are on the way which add exceptional graphic and 
video features to the OpaiVision Main Board. Create a complete video 
production studio by adding some or all of the OpaiVision Expansion modules. 
The modules connect directly to the Main Board without tying up Amiga slots. 

Frame Grabber + Genlock Module 

24-Bit real-time framegrabbing and oetter-than-broadcast-quality genlocking with 
S-Video, RGB and composite inputs and outputs. Real-Time video effects, 
transitions and color processing. 

Quad -in put Production Switcher 

Complete video switching capabilities. Includes four S-VHS, four composite 
and one RGB input. Three outputs: Composite, S-Video and RGB. Combine 
two live video sources, 24-Bit OpaiVision and Amiga-generated graphics. 

OpaiVision Scan-Rate Converter 

Perfect for desktop publishing and graphic arts applications, Generates flicker- 
free 24-Bit and Amiga graphics, Can also be used as a separate 24-Bit frame 
store for multimedia applications. 

OpaiVision Roaster Chip 

Amazing, complex Digital Video Effects. Real-time processing of live video. 
"Picture-in-Plcture" capability. Includes pre-made effects and provides for the 
creation of custom effects. 




OpalAnimMATE offers real-time 
playback of animations created by 
ray-tracers, landscape generators, 
morphers and all other 24-Bit software, 




OPAL PRESENTS! includes numerous 
built-in transitions for image 
sequencing and presentation. It also 
triggers CLI and AREXX commands. 







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The OpaiVision Roaster Chip 
transforms any video signal in real 
time. A wide variety of complex DVE's 
are included, or create your own! 




Created by: 

Opal Tech 

Sydney, Australia 



Manufactured and Distributed by: 

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P.O. Box 4400 

Redondo Beach, CA 90278 

Phone:(310)542-2226 
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UUhether or not you're a fan of PI James, you'll appreciate 
Inspector Leemon's detective work as he unravels the mystery of flmi?a display devices. 
Our comprehensive dossier-uuith comparative evaluations of 13 graphics boards- 
should satisfy your every desire for enhanced color resolution. 



irst and foremost, the Amiga has always 
been a graphics machine. That's why 
enhanced -display devices rank high on 
die "want" list of so many Amiga users. 
These devices can improve your display 
output in a couple of different ways. The 
ones with greater color resolution allow you to display more 
than the standard 4096 colors on screen at once. The extra 
colors help to display smoothly-shaded images with pho- 
tographic clarity, which is great for video and graphics de- 
sign work. Increased pixel resolution, on the other hand, 
allows you to work with highly detailed images, and is most- 
ly used for applications like CAD and desktop publishing. 
Most Amiga users End increased color resolution to be 
more important than greater pixel resolution. For one 
thing, many existing Amiga programs are able to create 
images with millions of colors, while applications that 



can take advantage of a 1024x1024 screen are at present 
almost nonexistent. For another, a high percentage of 
Amiga owners need to be able to take their display out- 
put to videotape, and there just aren't any devices that 
can output a screen larger than the Amiga's standard 
1448x482 SuperHires display (1448x566 PAL) to com- 
posite video. 

Whether you wish to enhance the color resolution, the 
pixel resolution, or both, beefing up the Amiga display 
is no simple matter. The problem, ironically, is the Ami- 
ga's own custom display chips. In order to offer maxi- 
mum performance, the Amiga's operating-system soft- 
ware is inextricably linked to its own proprietary display 
hardware. This makes the challenge of software compat- 
ibility much more difficult than on the PC or Macintosh, 
where even the standard display hardware comes on a 
plug-in card that is addressed as an external device. Sim- ■ 



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ply put, normal Amiga Workbench applications will not 
run on any screen other than the native Amiga display 
(although, as we'll see. some upcoming boards will [it 
to use software trickery to make this happen). Hard- 
ware manufacturers, therefore, have been forced to 
come up with elaborate and ingenious ways to get 
around this limitation. This, in turn, has caused a lot 
of confusion about what these boards do and how they 
do it. Fortunately, when you learn a lew of the terms 
and techniques used, much of the mystery disappears. 

The Display Dilemma: 2 Solutions 
Most devices adopt one of two general approaches in 
their efforts to overcome this inherent display limitation 
and the compatibility problems thai go with it. The first 
is to use the enhanced display as a separate framebuffer 
with its own separate monitor, unconnected in anyway 
to the normal Amiga display. This is the approach taken 
by DMI's Resolver and Vivid 24, Impulse's firecracker 
24, Progressive Peripherals' Rambrandl, and ACS' 
Harlequin (as well as the upcoming Visiona board — to 
be distributed by MicroPace — and the CAT EGS card). 
The advantages are that you can control multiple dis- 
plays with one computer, you aren't limited to the Ami- 
ga display resolutions, and you don't tie up the normal 
system display — which means that these cards can co- 
exist with devices like the Video Toaster. The main dis- 
advantages 
are the need 
for a second 
monitor (or, 
alternatively, 
a switchbox) 
and limited 
software com- 
patibility. 

.All of these 
devices can be 
used as a pas- 
sive display to 
show 24-bit 
images made 
widi programs 
such as 3-D 
renderers, us- 
ing the dis- 
play software 
included, or 
image-pro- 
cessing soft- 
ware (such as ASDG's Art Department Professional and 
Black Belt System's Imagemaster) that closely supports 
these devices. If you want to run interactive applica- 
tions like CAD, 3-D, or desktop-publishing programs 
on these displays, however, you'll need custom versions 
designed especially for the board you use, but such pro- 
grams have been very slow in coming. 

To increase compatibility, some manufacturers have 
tried to modify the system software so that the Amiga 
Workbench will run on their boards. DM! has delivered 
a preliminary version of its DM I Workbench program 
for the Resolver, and it promises a version for the Vivid 
24 board that will be compatible with all Amiga appli- 
cations. The soon-io-be-released Visiona board promis- 
es a Workbench emulator program thai will run most 
applications software at resolutions up to lfiO()Xl200. 




And GVP has already shown the Workbench running 
on its upcoming EGS-1 10/24 boards, at sizes of up to 
I600XI2SO. 

I be second approach to solving the compatibility 
problem is to connect the enhanced display to the nor- 
mal Amiga display, so that you can overlay normal 
Amiga graphics on top of the enhanced display (and, 
in some cases, vice versa). This method (with some vari- 
ations) is used by Centaur's OpalVision, GVP's IV24, 
Digital Creations' DCTV (with RGB option), INOVA- 
tronics' forthcoming AVideo24, and even to some extent 
by New Tek's Video Toaster. (Optionally, the firecracker 
can also be used in this way. You can attach the board 
to the internal display via an external cable and then 
use only one monitor for both kinds of display.) These 
boards display 24-bit ouiput from applications that sup- 
port it, yet allow you to run normal Amiga applications 
at lower color resolution on the same monitor. 

The drawbacks to this approach are that you are lim- 
ited to a single display, that the size of this display can- 
not exceed normal Amiga screen resolutions, and that 
(widi the exception of the firecracker) you cannot use 
other cards (such as the Video Toaster) that lit into the 
video slot. Many of these cards offer only an interlaced 
display, which makes them suitable for use with a 1 084- 
compatible monitor, but which also means that the 
screen will Dicker in modes more than 300 lines high. 
Although you can run normal Amiga software on these 
boards, yon will need special software — -just as with the 
secondary displays— to take advantage of their en- 
hanced capabilities. 

Before You Buy. . . 

When shopping for an advanced Amiga display, you 
should also consider price, performance, and bundled 
software. Two 24-bit boards, Rambrandt and Vivid 24, 
use the TI 34020 chip and optional math coprocessor 
chips (which make them more powerful computers 
than your Amiga!). This power comes at a cost, how- 
ever, as price tags for these boards start at around 
S.'UIIIO. and von mav not be able to find much software 
that can take full advantage of their near real-time ren- 
dering capabilities. 

Moderately-priced (SIOOO-SI500) boards, such as 
IV24 and OpalVision, do not provide the same level of 
performance, but come bundled with a selection of 
very useful graphics programs, such as paint and pre- 
sentation applications. Be sure to check the minimum 
hardware requirements for these boards. They range 
from a 68000 system with 3MBofRAM to a 68030 with 
8MB of RAM. Also, watch for a new super-low-cost ex- 
ternal 24-bit device from RCS Management. 

Another pertinent issue is animation. Although no- 
body has yet found away to animate full-screen 24-bit 
images at 30 frames per second, several boards claim 
to support real-time animation at somewhat lesser sizes 
and color depths. DC1Y. though not a true 24-bit de- 
vice, was the first to offer animation of enhanced-coior 
images. Of the 24-bit boards, only OpalVision currently 
provides software to compress a series of images into 
an animation and play them back in real time. But, so 
far, there is no paint/animation software on the 24-bit 
bout that equals DeluxePainl in the realm of Amiga- 
made graphics. 

While most of these boards share a few basic char- 
acteristics, like snow-flakes, no two are exactly alike, 



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which makes comparing them difficult. Not only that, 
this field of products seems always in a stale of flux, as 
new boards appear (or threaten to appear) and old 
boards are updated. The following brief, board-by- 
board rundown should give you a feel for the display 
enhancers currently available, and for those you may 
see in the near future. 

The boards are presented in two sections, corre- 
sponding to the two basic approaches described above. 
In addition to descriptions of the hardware, yon will 
End information about software bundled with the 
board and about third-party support for the device. 

A third sec.ion includes still another category of dis- 
plays: composite devices. While these are not strictly 
24-bit RGB displays, they serve a similar display-en- 
hancement function and are presented for comparison, 
finally, we've assembled a chart for side-by-side com- 
parison <>f the boards currently on the market. 

ScconoHRy Display Devices 

AS STATED EARLIER, secondary display devices are 
not tied to the normal Amiga displav. This means that 
it is possible to install more than one of these boards in 
the same system. Their independence from the Amiga 
display also makes them more likely to work without 
modification in the A4000 and future Amiga machines. 
All require a second monitor (or a muliiscan monitor 
on a switchbox), and those that oiler noninterlaced res- 
olutions gt eater than 1024x768 will probably require an 
expensive, large-screen muliiscan monitor. 

I larlequin 
ACS/Haitex 

Although only recent!)' imported to US shores by 
Haitex, Harlequin has been available in Europe from 
its manufacturer. ACS (Amiga Centre Scotland), for 
quite some time. The [-larlequin board plugs into any 
expansion slol on the A2000 or A3000 (and, according 
to Haitex, the A4 000 as well). Because of a small plug- 
in board on the side, however, it is so wide that it may 
preclude use of the adjacent slot 

Four models of the hoard are available, ranging in 
price from S2298 10 S2898 — somewhat high for a board 
without graphics accelerators or math coprocessors. All 
models oiler 24-bit color at the somewhat unconven- 
tional screen resolutions of 740x486, 832x486. and 
910X486 (.576 lines in PAL). The Model 2000 includes 
an eight-bit Alpha channel lor variable transparency, 
the 3000 oilers double-buffering For animation, and 
the 4000 provides both. All versions of the board can 
output graphics either in an interlaced formal that can 
he displayed on a 1084-style monitor, or in a nonin- 
terlaced lormal on an inexpensive VGA or multiscan 
monitor, such as die Commodore 1960. 

The software that comes with die board includes TV 
Display, a program that displays a 24-hii graphics file 
and provides some scaling and lormal -conversion fea- 
tures; and Slide-32, a script-based 24-bii slide-show 
program with more than 30 transitions. The package 
also includes a demonstration version of TV Paint, a 
full-lcatured 24-hil program by the French company 
Tecsofl. (This program, first available on the 
Harlequin, is now also available for most of the hoards 
listed here.) 



The demo version of TV Paint lets you paint inter- 
actively on the Harlequin screen (as long as you have 
a minimum of 8MB of RAM), and it contains all of the 
image-manipulation features of the full program, lint 
you cannot save your images unless you buy the regis- 
tered version, which comes with a hardware key that 
plugs into the disk-drive port. TV Paint contains a 
number of advanced gradient-fill and transparency op- 
tions, plus numerous drawing modes, such as airbrush, 
smooth, blur, and smear, and such image-processing 
functions as convolutions. Finally, the Harlequin comes 
with a wealth of programming information and li- 
braries that allow users to create original software that 
takes advantage of all of the board's capabilities. 

Among the third-part)' software that directly supports 
'the Harlequin board areADPro, (magemaster, Caligari 
Broadcast (Octree Corp.), and Real3D (Acliva/Programs 
Plus & Video). Although 1 have yet to see any anima- 
tion on the Harlequin, ACS says that Anim24, a pro- 
gram that creates 24-bit real-time animations al partial- 
screen sizes, should he available soon. Although 
I larlequin includes connectors fur genlocking external 
video and for 
overlaying 24- 
bit graphics on- 
to live video, 
connecting the 
hoard to exist- 
ing video hard- 
ware will lake 
some expertise 
on your pari. 
as there is no 
simple "plug- 
and-play" solu- 
tion that uses 
standard Ami- 
ga genlocks. 

Resolver and 
Vivid 24 
DM1 

Digital Mi- 
cronics has a 
couple of ell- 
hanced-display 
boards based 
on the Texas 
Instruments 
340x0 series of 

graphics processors, These processors oiler graphics 
acceleration plus enhanced resolutions. D.MI's 34010- 
based Resolver displays 256 colors in resolutions up to 
1280x1024 noninterlaced and 2048x2048 interlaced 
(on the proper monitor). The latest. Vivid 24, is based 
on the more powerful 34020 chip, and displays the 
same resolutions in 24-bit color (16.7 million colors). 

While the Resolver starts at under $1300, the base 
price of Vivid 24 is S2995, and a fully-equipped model 
could run more than S9000. You get considerable 
graphics power for the money, however, DMI claims 
that a Vivid 24 board with four math coprocessors can 
perform 160 million floating-point operations per sec- 
ond, more than twice the performance of a $200,000 
Silicon Graphics workstation. That's enough power to 
render complex 3-D objects in less than a second. White i 




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neither provides composite output as a standard feature, 
Vivid 24 oilers an optional genlock/encoder module. 

Both the Resolver and Vivid 2-1 tome with a small 
paint program, a configuration program that easily al- 
lows you to create whatever output-resolution mode 
you wish, and a Workbench emulator program thai al- 
lows you to run some existing applications software at 

larger screen resolu- 
tions. Willi Vivid 24, 
DM I also plans to 
offer DMI-Render, a 
3-D renderer that 
accepts and loads 
objects in a number 
of 3-D formats. 

Third-party sup- 
port (or these boards 
is facilitated by the 
SAGE libraries, a 
software standard 
set by DM I and Pro- 
gressive Peripherals, 
which let software 
made lor any 340X0 
board on the Amiga 
work with anv other 
board. There is al- 
ready SAGE support 
in ADPro, Image- 
master, Aladdin 4D 
(Adspec), and Pre- 
sentation Master 
(Oxxi). DMI also in- 
dicates that there 
will be a version of 
TV Pain I for its 
boards and SAGE 
versions of several 
other programs, in- 
cluding Real3D and 3D Professional 2.0 (Progressive 
Peripherals), as well as such specialized software pack- 
ages as Surf X (a 3-D modeling and rendering pro- 
gram) and .Animator Broadcast (an interactive image- 
processing program). The real development to watch 
for, however, is 3-D and image-processing software that 
can take advantage of Vivid 24"s math coprocessors. 

Rambrandt and Rambrandt Personal 
Progressive Peripherals 

The Rambrandt board from Progressive Peripherals 
is also based on the 34020 chip, bill Progressive Periph- 
erals has chosen in go for versatility, ratliet than the 
brute floating-point power of Vivid 24. This board fea- 
tures a 40 MHz 34020 with a 34082 math/graphics co- 
processor, 8MB orvideo RAM, and 8MB of DRAM for 
programs. In addition to 24-bit displays at 
programmable resolutions upwards of 1024X1024, this 
board lias both inputs and outputs for composite 
video. This allows it to do framegrabbing, genlocking, 
and picture-in-picture effects, as well as real-time video 
manipulation and image processing. 

•Although Progressive Peripherals has sold some of 
these boards, mostly to developers, (be official launch 
was set back by a lire that disrupted Progressive's op- 
erations. The company assures that things are back to 
normal, and it plans to reintroduce the original Ram- 




brandt board at $3095. In addition, there will be a new, 
lower-priced (52795) version, Rambrandt Bersonal, 
that supports S-VHS output but provides no inputs, al- 
though Progressive claims that this board delivers bet- 
ter video quality than the regular one. Both versions 
come with Progressive's 3D Pro 2.0 software and a bat- 
tery of utilities. Since Progressive has codeveloped the 
SAGE libraries with DMI, (he third-party support 
should be the same as for the DMI boards. 

A2410 

Commodore Business Machines 

Commodore's A24 1 (S998), also known as the Low- 
ell board (because it was designed at the University of 
Lowell), is an eight-bit board thai (like the DMI Re- 
solver) uses the Texas Instruments 34010 graphics 
chip. While this board has been available for quite 
some time, Commodore has offered only half-hearted 
support for the product. CBM positioned the A2410 
mainly as a Unix display, on which you may run X-Win- 
dows. The only real AmigaDO.S support lor the A2410 
conies in the form of an Art Department saver that al- 
lows you to display eight-bit graphics on the board. 
Considering that DMI offers Unix and X-Windows sup- 
port for the Resolver, as well as AmigaDOS support, it 
seems a 1 letter i hoice unless your interest is mainly in 
Unix. 

Coming Attractions 

Although not available in the US at this time, two other 
boards have generated a lot of interest on this side of 
the Atlantic. One or both may be ready to ship domes- 
tically by the time you read this. 

Visiona 
MicroPace 

Visiona plugs into a normal expansion slot on the 
A2000, A3000, or A4000, and provides a wide range 
nl programmable resolutions — up to 1024x1024 in 24- 
bil color and 8192x4090 in monochrome. Its variable 
output scan rates allow vou to use a 1084 monitor in 
either PAL or NTSC modes, although a second, high- 
resolution Super-VGA monitor is recommended. The 
board is based around a custom tamos processor that 
runs at speeds of 85-135 MHz, depending upon the 
model vou choose. Suggested prices range from from 
S2600 for the 85 MHz board with 2MB of VRAM to 
S5600 for the 135 MHz version with 4MB of VRAM. 
Visiona has no direct composite-video support, but it 
does have RGB and sync outputs that can be plugged 
into a standard video encoder. 

Visiona will be packaged with the 'IV Paint demo 
and V-Paint24 ]r. Also included is a Workbench emu- 
lator program, which is said to let vou run most appli- 
cations software at resolutions up to 1600X1200. Vi- 
siona Animator, an animation program, is due out a 
few months after the board's debut. The full "IV Paint 
version will cost an additional $1495. Third-party sup- 
port includes display modules for AD Pro and Image- 
master, as well as some European GAD software. 

EGS- 110/24 

Great Valley Products 

(A'P's upcoming EGS-110/24 is unique in thai it 

connects directly to the 32-bil expansion bus on any of 
the C AT Combo board 68030 or 68040 accelerators for 



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the Amiga 2000. This allows the processor to read and 
write the video RAM directly, just like its own 32-bit 
memory, lor very high performance. The output ofthe 
hoard is completely programmable, allowing resolu- 
tions of up to L600X1280 in 24-bit color on appropriate 
monitors. The 4MB and 8MB versions have suggested 
prices of §2699 and S3399, respectively. The EGS 
board has no direct support for composite video, but 
a composite encoder can be used to convert its RGB 



video, and the board includes a sync-in connector that 
allows it to genlock to an external video source. 

"live software that comes with the EGS will include 
MacroPainl and a demonstration version of TV Paint. 
The full version will cost an additional S995. Also bun- 
dled with the board will be EGS programming li- 
braries, full programming information, and a Work- 
bench driver that will allow existing Amiga 
applications to run directly on the EGS board in reso- ' 



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Toaster DCTV 



Firecracker 24 IV-24 



A2410 



Re solver 



Vivid 24 



Rambrandt OpalVision Harlequin 



Manufacturer NewTek Digital Impulse 

Creations 



List Price 



Output 
Type 

Horizontal 
Scan Rate 

Genlock 

Compatible? 

Displays 
Workbench? 



S2495 



Comp. 



S495 S1000 

|S595 PAL) 



Comp. 
(1) 



15 KHz 15 KHz 



No 



No 



.Multiple 
Devices? 

Video 
Standard 

Toaster 
Friendly? 



No 



NTSC 



IV A 



No 



Deinterlacer Partial 
Friendly? (2| 



Video 
Digitizer? 



Frame- Slow- 
grabber scan 



RGB 



15 KHz 



Includes Optional External 
HI 



Yes 



Amiga Models 


2000 


All 


2000/ 


Supported 






3000 






Color 
Resolution 


2-4 
million 


2-4 
million 


16 million 


Max Pixel 

Resolution 


768x480 
(int) 


708x480 
(int| 


1024x480 
lint) 



Yes 



No 



Great 

Valley 

SI 935 



RGB/ 
Comp. 



Includes 



Yes 



2000/ 
3000 



No 



Commo- 
dore 



S998 



RGB 



Digital 
Micronics 

S1295-S2195 



RGB 



15/31 KHz Program- Program- 
mable mable 



No 



No 



2000/ 
3000 



16 million 256 



Possibly (5) 



Yos, via 
emulator 

2000/3000/ 
4000 

256 



Digital 
Micronics 

S2995-S9300 



RGB 



Program- 
mable 

Encoder 
optional 

Yes, via 
emulator 

2000/3000/ 
4000 

16 million 



Progressive Centaur 
Peripherals 



S3995 



RGB 



Program- 
mable 

Includes 



No 



S995 



RGB 



15 KHz 
(3) 

Optional 

extra 

Yes 



ACS 



$2298-2898 



16 million 16 million 



768x480 1280x1024 1280x1024 [non] 1280x1024 (non) 1024x1024 768x476 
lintornon) (non] 2048x2048 (int) 2048x2048 (int) (int or non) (int) (3) 



Yes 



NTSC 
or PAL 


NTSC/ 
PAL 


NTSC/ 
PAL 


NTS 

PAL 








No 


Yes 


No 


Yes 


Yes 


Yes 


Includes 
deinterlacer 


Yes 



Frame- 
grabber 



No 



Yes 

NTSC/ 
PAL 

Yes 
Yes 
No 



Yes 



NTSC/ 
PAL 

Yes 



Yes 



No 



Yes 



NTSC/ 
PAL 

Yes 



Yes 



Frame- 
grabber 



No 



NTSC/ 
PAL 



No 



No (3) 



Optional 



RGB 



15/31 KHz 



Possibly |5) 



No 



2000/3000/ 2000/3000/ 2000/3000/ 
4000 4000 



4000 

16 million 



910x486 
(int or non| 

Yes 



NTSC or 
PAL 



Yes 



Yes 



No (4) 



Notes: 

(1) Separately available RGB adapter enables use with a genlock. 

(2( The Toaster works only with deinterlacers that do not use the video slot. 

(3| Does not work with third-party display enhancers, but provides 480-line noninterlaced 31 KHz display with its own optional deinterlacer module. 

(4) Although there is no built-in video digitizer, optional TV Paint software supports digitizing with such third-party boards as DKB's imminent V-Lab. 

(5) Does not work out of the box with normal Amiga genlocks. With custom cables, it may work with Amiga genlocks or professional video encoders/scan converters. 



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lutions of up to 1600X1280 in up to 256 colors. And 
considering GVP's track record, with extensive software 
support lor the IV24, there will probably be oilier appli- 
cations available by the lime the EGS board is released. 

CofflBiniiTioii Workbehch/Eiihaiked Devices 

THESE DEVICES SUPERIMPOSE their graphics on 
top of the normal Amiga Workbench screen, allowing 
you to run normal- and enhanced-mode programs on 

the same monitor. Some of them take up the video slot, 
which means that it is not available for devices like the 
Video Toaster or deinterlacer boards. Their interaction 
with the system display hardware also makes I hem 
more likely to encounter problems with the A4000, par- 
ticularly in some of the new display modes (although 
you are less likely to need one of these boards if you 
have purchased an A4000). 

OpalVision 

Centaur Development 

One of the hottest new Amiga display boards, Opal- 
Vision takes a unique modular approach, I he basic 
board, which plugs into the video slot, offers 24-bit col- 
or (plus an eight-bit alpha channel) at a resolution of 
768x476 interlaced on a standard 1084-style monitor. 
By early 1993, Centaur plans to offer a video-input 
module that will add frame-grabbing and overlay-gen- 
lock capabilities, a deinterlacer that will let you display 
noninterlaced screens at VGA scan rates, and a switcher 
and digital video-effects module that will give you some 
of the Video Toaster's capabilities. The base unit costs 
only $995, and even with add-on modules. OpalVision 
should be quite competitive. 

The software bundled with OpalVision includes 
OpalPresents, a slide-show program, Opal HoiKey, a 
presentation program, and OpalPaint, a full-featured 
paint program. OpalPaint, in particular, includes such 
slale-of-ihe art features as tolerance ranges for stencils, 
fills, and brushes that are not found on any other Ami- 
ga paint program, including TV Paint versions that sell 
for over SI 000. 

Centaur has enhanced this program considerably 
since its initial release, adding image-processing func- 
tions and full ARcxx support. In its recent 1.1 release, 
Centaur also added Opal AnimMATE, an animation- 
creation and playback system that is the first of its kind 
for an enhanced Amiga display. Such animations take 
up an enormous amount of space and processor power, 
but AnimMATE can play a sequence of 320x200 lo-res 
12-bit color images at up to 20 frames per second or 
24-bit images at up to 1 5 frames per second on an Ami- 
ga 3000. (For a more detailed look at the capabilities 
of the new OpalVision 1.1, see the review on p. 77.) 

Third-party software support for OpalVision has 
been outstanding. An impressive number of leading 
Amiga graphics packages, including ADl'ro, Morph- 
Plus (ASDG), Jmagemaster, .Aladdin 41), Scala (Scala 
Inc.), Caligari Broadcast, Desktop Darkroom (GVP), 
TV Paint, 3D Pro, and Real3D, all support this board. 

Firecracker 24 
Impulse 

Available for S 1000 or less, Impulse's Firecracker 24 
remains the basic, no-frills workhorse for 24-bit display 



on the Amiga. Although it plugs into a normal expan- 
sion slot, by connecting the output of the Amiga video 
port to the board via an external cable, you can turn it 
into a combined display in which the Workbench is su- 
perimposed on top of the 24-bil images. Its output of 
up to 16.7 million colors at resolutions of up to 
1024X480 interlaced comes out of a normal 23-pin 
Amiga video connector. This means that you can use 
not only your regular 1084 monitor with the board, but 
also your normal external genlock. 

Firecracker 24 comes with display software, as well 
as Eight24, a middle-of-the-road paint package that, 
unfortunately, has not been updated in quite some- 
time. Impulse's Imagine 3-D program (available sep- 
arately, although some retailers bundle the two prod- 
ucts) naturally supports the Firecracker. Third-party 
software support includes ADPro and Imagcmaster (a 
special Firecracker version of the latter allows you to 
paint right on the Firecracker board). 

IV24 

Great Valley Products 

Versatility is the strong point of GVP's Impact Vision 24 
(S1995). This unique board is the only one designed 
so far to take advantage of the special combination 
video slot found on the A3000, although the board also 
works fine on the A2000, where it plugs into the video 
slot and connects to a normal expansion slot via a rib- 
bon-cable adapter. Current versions of the board do 
not work on the A4000, but according to GVP new pro- 
duction runs incorporate A4000 compatibility. 

As a basic 24-bit display, the IV24 allows you to 
show as many as 16.7 million colors on a 768x180 
screen. Its RGB output can he set to either an inter- 
laced display on a 1084 monitor, or a noninterlaced 
VGA display. Using the included Video Interface Unit 
(VIU), the board has both inputs and outputs for 
composite video. This allows it to genlock and overlay 
both standard Amiga graphics and 24-bit graphics on 
top of live video, to capture video frames on the lly, 
and to display an external video image in a small win- 
dow on the Workbench screen. The VIU even has 
connections for two inputs and allows you to switch 
between them. 

file IV24 software includes a control program lo ac- 
tivate the board's various modes, a pieture-in-picture 
program, a simple framegrabber, a 24-bit display pro- 
gram, and several applications. Initially, these included 
cut-down versions of the presentation package Scala 
and the Caligari 3-D rendering and animation pack- 
age. By the time you read this, however, GVP will have 
replaced these with Desktop Darkroom (a full-leal tired 
image-capture and -processing program), My Live Ac- 
tion Director (a program for switching between two live 
video sources using a number of transition effects), and 
an updated version of MacroPaint 24. 

GVP lias been very active in its software support fiir 
the 1V24, and it has demonstrated several turnkey sys- 
tems for vertical markets based on the board These in- 
clude a T-shirt printing system and ADDI, a digital 
composition system meant to compete with profession- 
al video gear that costs ten times as much. 

Delayed Releases 

In the coming-attractions department for these com- 
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from the same developer — without a release date, and 
apparently on hold. 

AVideo 12/24 
INOVAtronics 

In mid-1992, INOVAtronics advertised that ii would 
soon begin shipping AVideo 12 and AVideo24, low- 
priced 12- and 24-bit graphics boards that plug into 
the Denise socket of the A2000 and A3000. (AVideo 1 2 
also works with the A500.) These boards allow normal 
Workbench graphics to be displayed on top of an en- 
hanced background, using normal monitors and gen- 
locks. Although both boards have been in limited re- 
lease to developers, INOVAtronics has delaved the 
general release of these products — perhaps to rethink 
and reposition them in light of the introduction of the 
Amiga 4000 and AI 200. 



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STRICTLY SPEAKING, THE remaining boards do 
not really belong in the category of 24-bit RGB dis- 
plays, because they are multifunction devices designed 
mainly for composite-video input and output. Al- 
though composite video presents a somewhat blurry 
picture with somewhat fewer colors than the 1(3 million 
offered by RGB boards, these devices allow you to 
record their output directly on your VCR. Since they 
do provide enhanced color from your Amiga, they rep- 
resent an alternative that should be considered. 

The Video Toaster 

NewTek 

The Video Toaster ($2495) provides so many video- 
production tools that it is hard to think of it as a display 
device. Nonetheless, with two broadcast-quality frame- 
buffers, frame-grabbing capabilities, and a complete 
paint package, the 'Ibasler does perform many of the 
same functions as the other boards presented here. 
Apart from that, of course, it offers all the switching, 
digital effects, luminance keying, color effects, and 3-D 
rendering and animation capabilities that truly make 
it a "TV studio in a box." NewTek, however, makes no 
pretense that the Toaster is a "multimedia" board of 
any kind. Bui if video production is your goal, the 
Toaster should be the first place you look. 

DCTV 

Digital Creations 

DCTV is an external box that plugs into the RGB 
port of any Amiga. It may not provide the high-quality 
output of the Toaster, but at about S500 it is much less 
expensive. The standard DCTV unit requires a com- 
posite monitor, but Digital Creations recently released 
an RGB adapter for DCTV that allows you to use the 
RGB mode of your 1084 to display the picture, With 
the included parallel-port cable connected, DCTV also 
can digitize a still-video picture in under 10 seconds. 

Unlike most display devices, DCTV docs not provide 
its own independent display. Rather, it takes the data 
from the normal Amiga display and interprets it as 
compressed analog video data. This means that you 
cannot display normal Amiga graphics at the same 
time as DCTV graphics, because DCTV uses up the 
normal Amiga display. It also means, however, that 



DCTV images can be stored as normal hi-res Amiga 
IFF hies, about 100,000 bytes, which compares favor- 
ably wiili the 800,000 or more bytes required for a 24- 
bil image. These DCTV pictures can be displayed by 
any software that displays a normal IFF picture, includ- 
ing AmigaVision (CBM) and similar presentation pack- 
ages. They can even be compressed into normal ANIM 
files for high-color animations that play back in real 
time. 

All of this serves to enhance considerably the atrcadv 
formidable software bundled with DCTV which in- 
cludes an image-processing program, the video digi- 
tizer, and DCTV Paint, one of the more highly regard- 
ed video paint programs for the Amiga. The latest 
version ol'ADPro supports the creation of DCTV-com- 
patible IFF images, as well. 

Don't Forget the A4000! 

If you are considering enhancing your current Amiga 
display, don't overlook the option of buying an Amiga 
4000, or even an Al 200, both of which contain the AGA 
(Advanced Graphics Architecture) chip set, the new 
standard for built-in graphics. Among the several new 
display modes are a 1280X480 256-color interlaced 
mode for video and a 736X480 mode that uses hard- 
ware compression to give you 18-bit color (262.000 
shades) for only eight bits of data. With its powerful 
68040 processor, the A4000 will lei vou animate full- 
screen high-color images at 30 frames per second. 

Although software support is limited as of this writ- 
ing (only ADPro and Pro Write 3.3 take direct advan- 
tage of the new graphics modes), a whole host of AGA 
software should soon be available, including updates 
of existing programs (such as Electronic Arts' Deluxe- 
Paint IV) and brand-new ones (such as Brilliance, Dig- 
ital Creations' paint/animation package). After all, AGA 
is the standard for all new Amigas. 

The Future: Retargettable Graphics 

Although the light link between the graphics chips and 
the operating system has made it dillicult to integrate 
new displays with the Workbench, that situation won't 
last forever. In a keynote address at last fall's World of 
Commodore show, CBM's VP of Engineering, Lewis 
Eggebrecht, indicated that AmigaDOS 4.0 would incor- 
porate retargertable graphics (RIG). This means that 
operating-system graphics functions would no longer 
write directly to the hardware, but instead use an inter- 
mediate library of functions. This will enable a display 
manufacturer to write a simple driver allowing all well- 
behaved software to use the new display automatically. 
Versions 2.0 and 3.0 of the operating system have al- 
ready laid the groundwork for this system by allowing 
software to enquire about the characteristics of the dis- 
play and, for example, to select colors by asking for 
"the closest available shade of green," rather than spec- 
ifying a hardware color register. If things go as 
planned, in the next year or so you may have an even 
more bewildering array of enhanced-display devices 
from which to choose! ■ 

Sheldon hviiwu is a respected authority on the Amiga andau- 
llior oj 'several hooks, including Inside Amiga Graphics. He 
recently finished the fourth edition of the AmigaDOS Refer- 
ence Guide (Compute! Books). When he's not -writing, wu eon 
often find him at Slipped Disk, a Detroit-aim Amiga dealership. 



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With the help of a full-color dis- 
play device, 24-bit graphics 
look great on your screen. But 
how do you get that same great 
look on paper? Let's explore 
the basics of full-color printing, 
the tools available, and the people you will 
work with to see your production finalized. 
While there are other techniques available, 
we will focus on the most common produc- 
tion method, lithographic ("litho") printing. 
The litho process involves placing a thin lay- 
er of ink on a flat printing plate, which is 
chemically treated to repel ink in the non- 
printing areas, and then pressing that plate 
onto paper. The plate is typical!)' created by 
exposing a film negative of the print image 
to the plate surface. This negative can be cre- 
ated using traditional methods or from a 
computer file sent to a high-end laser printer 
that handles film output. Such printers are 
commonly available to desktop-computer 
artists through service bureaus. 

Print Types 

To understand 24-bit printing you must un- 
derstand graphics printing in general. Any 
production includes type, art, or a combina- 
tion of the two. The artwork can he either line 
art (black-and-white), halftone, spot color, or 
full color. Line art and halftone images are 
produced with one pass through the press; 
the ink and the paper combine to create the 
final image. Although the ink is usually black and the 
paper white, they may be any combination of colors. 
Halftone images are the kind you see in newspapers. 
Look closely at a newspaper picture and you will see 
that the shades of gray are created by altering the size 
and placement of printed dots. Light gray is created 
with fine clots widely spaced; dark gray is achieved with 
large dots closely spaced. Traditionally, this pattern is 




"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" 

created by placing a fine screen between the original 
photograph or image and the negative used for creat- 
ing the print plate. Computer software can also create 
this screen pattern (line screen) from your original im- 
age. The required line screen will vary depending on 
the final print requirements. For example, magazines 
use a much finer line screen than do newspapers, which 
is the reason photographs look better in magazines. *■ 



How do you get your full-color graphics to look as good on paper 
as they do on screen 1 ? Via the print industry's four-color process. 

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Line screens are cited in terms of lines per inch (or 
lines per centimeter outside the US). Typical values are 
133 to 150 lor magazines and 75 for newspapers. Line 
screens should nol be c< >n fused with I lie common com- 
puter-printing measurement dots per inch. (The differ- 
ence will become apparent in a moment.) 

Color is added to a production with additional print- 
ing plates and ink colors in the form of either spot col- 
or or lull color. Spot color is useful when highlighting 
areas of special interest, for example, to bring atten- 
tion loan ad lor it big sale, you could print the headline 
in red ink with the rest of the ad in black. You can spec- 
ify any number of spot colors in your production, but 
each one requires an additional printing plate. 

full-color photos and artwork are typically repro- 
duced with a technique called four-color process. The 
images are broken down into components of cyan (C), 
yellow (V), magenta (M), and black (K), which are re- 
ferred to as CYMK separations. Line screens are also 
used in production of four-color separations. The size. 
shape, and placement of the dots affect the final print- 
ed image. The dots are overlapped and thus combine 
into millions of possible colors. 

CYMK is simply a method of defining color; any col- 
or can be produced by combining specific values of 
cyan, yellow, and magenta. This method is the exact in- 
verse of RGB (red. green, blue) color combinations 
vour computer monitor uses, for example. lOO'/t each 
of ted, green, and blue gives you white on your screen. 
Bui lOII'f of cyan, yellow, and magenta yields black 
(actually, it yields a dark, muddy brown: black ink is 
added to achieve true black). Understanding how 
colors are represented on screen versus how ibev print 
becomes critical when von want vour hard copv to look 
like what you see on your monitor. 

Getting What You Want 

The term WYSIWYG (W'hat-You-See-lsAVhat-Yoii-Gct) 
became popular with the growth of desktop publishing. 
It is applicable to black-and-white images, but not to 
full color. Why? Quite simply, variations in monitors' 
brightness and contrast settings alter the screen image. 
Sure, the colors in your image represent specific values, 
but how you view them depends on monitor calibra- 
tions. Developers for tuber platforms have produced 
methods, using hardware and software, for producing 
reliable output of your screen image. Unfortunately, we 
are still wailing for this ability for the Amiga. 



Variance between screen and print pixels poses more 
potential trouble. Print dots have a one-to-one aspect 
ratio, but the Amiga supports many resolutions and 
pixel aspect ratios. For example, pixels on a 040 by 400 
hi-res display have an aspect ratio of six to seven. Also, 
man;' multisync monitors let you adjust the display 
both horizontally and vertically. This means that what 
appear on your monitor as circles and squares may 
print as ovals and rectangles. Thus, you should prepare 
to adjust your graphics using image-processing soft- 
ware before incorporating lliem in a layout. 

Today many programs permit you to create color 
PostScript files, load full-color 24-bit images, and spec- 
ify spot-color areas in vour designs. The differences 
among them lie in how they control your printed out- 
put, for example, with a graphics program such as 
Electronic Arts' DeluxePaint IV, you can create any 
bitmapped graphic image up to 4096 colors — but you 
can output this image only to an .Amiga Preferences 
printer. If you want to litbo print this image, von must 
use other software to create (bur-color separations. 
ASDG's Art Department Professional 2 can load 
bitmapped images and generate CYMK color separa- 
tions. And desktop-publishing programs such as Saxon 
Publisher (Saxon Industries), Professional Page (Gold 
Disk), and PageStream (Soft-Logik) can handle com- 
plete layout with output of four-color or spot-color sep- 
arations. (See "Separating the DTP Pack," Sep. '91, p. 
29, for more on the separation capabilities of these lay- 
out programs.) 

What are the benefits and drawbacks to using spot- 
color vs. four-color separations? Spot color provides 
predictable output: If von specify a color, von can be 
certain that the final ink will match. Both the Pantone 
and TniColor systems let you determine exact colors 
using preprinted swatches (available from graphic-de- 
sign supply stores]. The disadvantage here is that each 
color requires a different print plate, and each plate 
requires either another setup and pass through the 
press, or a more sophisticated, multicolor press. Hither 
option increases the cost of the linal production. 

"fo keep costs down, most multicolor productions are 
done with four-color separations. The problem is that 
you must depend on the software to correctly analyze 
and print the correct size, shape, and position of the 
CYMK dots that will re-create your image. In addition, 
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Remember thai what you see on your monitor is not 
quite what will be printed. 

2. Use software that produces the output you re- 
quire, either spot-color or four-color separations. 

3. Use spot color sparingly, either in work involving 



fewer than four colors or when a color must be 
matched exactly. 

4. Contact the final printer and find out the type 
of negatives required (i.e., emulsion side down, right 
reading, screen line, etc.). 

5. Contact the service bureau and find out the file 
requirements (i.e., source files vs. PostScript-print 
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the impurities in printer's ink, respectively. This works 
only for pictures, however. If you have text and graph- 
ics, you will need a desktop-publishing program to pro- 
duce the separation files. 

True Color 

What do you do with four-color separation files once 
you have created them? The most cost-effective solu- 
tion is to output them through a service bureau. You 
can find service bureaus in most metropolitan yellow 
pages, and in magazines that specialize in desktop 
publishing. Most bureaus can handle files either by 
mail or modem. 

Most service bureaus use a PostScript or PostScript- 
compatible laser printer to generate either paper 
prims or film negatives. For paper output, you must 
pay additional costs to produce the required negatives. 
While it is easy to create the PostScript files (you simply 
print the separation files to disk), the service bureau 
will have no control over the output. 

Bureaus that handle Amigas prefer that you provide 
a source file; they load the image into the application 
and generate the separations for you, and then tweak 
the separation files to adjust the results. Before choos- 
ing a service bureau, ask what type of files it handles. 



what it can produce, if it can handle source files, and. 
if not, what settings it needs Hi produce die output von 
require. (If the outfit has no experience in dealing with 
files from Amiga software, look elsewhere.) Settings 
such as the line screen and the line angle will alter your 
final output. Often you must get these specifications 
from the printer who will be handling the output; ad 
requirements, for instance, are based on the capabilities 
of the magazine or newspaper in which it will appear. 

Generally, service bureaus can also produce a color 
print if you provide them with a color PostScript file as 
well as the source file. This may be a good way to check 
whether the output is close to what you expect. Re- 
member, though, that the output of a lull-color file to 
a color printer is not the same as four-color separations 
printed on a litho press. After this point, you would use 
a color key, chromatin, or other form of press proofing 
to verify color. These methods use the actual four-color 
negatives to produce a similar output on the final press. 
The negatives are exposed to a color-sensitive trans- 
parenq- that will produce a specific color; these are 
then layered on top of each other to produce the fac- 
simile of the final output. 

Here the production process comes to a turning 
point. These color keys are made by your final-press 
printer, who is using negatives produced bv a service 
bureau. The printer has no control over these nega- 
tives, and if they are washed out or have incorrect col- 
or values, the fault will be turned back to the negatives. 
To make corrections, you will have to produce new neg- 
atives and new color keys prior to printing your final 
output. The only way to be completely certain of the 
output is to request a press proof from your printer, 
which requires the actual setup and printing of the fi- 
nal piece. While this is generally costly in terms of both 
time and money, it is the only way to be assured of cor- 
rect final output. 

So, in the long run, is it better or more cost-effective 
to produce color separations by computer than by 
more traditional methods? While the costs and risks 
may seem significant, these problems have always ex- 
isted in full-color printing. Traditionally, images would 
be scanned and then separated, spot-color areas would 
be stripped apart by hand, and color correcting and 
tinting would be done by hand or on expensive, high- 
end workstations. You now have these controls at your 
hands on the desktop. Even if you have to reprint color- 
separated negatives through a service bureau, it will 
cost far less than having new separations or touch-up 
work done traditionally. 

Full-color processing for print is still evolving on the 
desktop. While it is considerably better than even one 
year ago, it is not foolproof. So consider your require- 
ments, software, service bureaus, and vour final print- 
er carefully. Find out what each party can do for you, 
and do not hesitate to ask each of them which part of 
the process they will take full responsibility for. Most 
vendors will tell you how well their product works; the 
question is how well it will work with the other pieces 
in your production. ■ 

Steven Blaize is owner of Creative Fire, a multimedia-pre- 
sentation company, and co-owner of Texture City, developer 
of full-color backgrounds and textures. He is an author, lec- 
turer, and consultant on Amiga and DOS/WtndeuiS plat- 
forms specializing in graphic design and 3-D animation. 



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WHEN I FIRST got Microsoft 
AmigaBasic for my Amiga, I 
couldn't wait to try out the sprite and 
BOB commands that looked so 
promising in the documentation. 
What luck! There was even a sample 
program on the disk. I booted it up, 
sat back, and...uh, wait a minute, 
isn't this supposed to be the world's 
most powerful graphics PC? Those 
sprites didn't dart across the screen, 
they trudged. 

Later, other BASICs entered the 
market, but the story was always the 
same. Trudge, trudge, trudge. I 
thought I'd died and gone to 
Siberia. ..and I began to doubt my 
Amiga. *- 



BY MARK JORDAN 



ILLUSTRATED IJV DAVID JOLY 



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Now I must apologize. It took a piece of software 
from England written by a Frenchman to reaffirm my 
Eaith in the American computer with the vaguely Span- 
ish-sounding name. 

The program is AMOS (SI 10. Europress Software — 
see "Manufacturers'/Distributors? Addresses" on p. 11-1 ). 
It's a BASIC, language for all the world to speak (even 
in Siberia!), with more than 500 powerful, creative 
commands. And not onlv does AMOS have this huge 
vocabulary, it lias AMAL What's AMAL? 

• an acronym for AMos Animation Language 

• a BASIC/inachine language hybrid that sends 
sprites gliding, BOBs bobbing, and entire screens 
moving to and fro with silky smoothness 

• a last, powerful, and slightly hard-to-learn door- 
way to interrupt-driven programming 

Let's start, with a quick overview of the AMAL concept 
and then take a look at some real-life AMAL program- 
ming in action. 

Strings, Grammar, and Channels 

AMAL is a sublanguage within .-AMOS with its own set 
of 14 commands and 15 functions. None of these, how- 
ever, can be used directly from BASIC. So how do you 
access them? Via strings, as in: 

MS="ILetY=Y+1" 

You must write your entire AMAL subprograms inside 
of BASIC string variables, which takes some getting 
used to. 

If your program becomes very long, you'll need to 
add strings together, like so: 

MS = MS+"LetX=X+1" 

For debugging purposes, it's a good idea to use global 
string variables so that you can print out the entire 
AMAL program in direct mode to study. 

It doesn't take much perusing through the AMAL 
section of the AMOS manual to see that AMAL has, 
shall we say, a peculiar syntax. The most important de- 
viations from BASIC you will have to deal with are: 

1. Only single capital letters have meaning to AMAL. 

2. Semicolons, not colons, are used as command 

separators. 

3. Colons are used to designate labels. 

4. II has no Then, just a [limp. 

5. For/Next loops use registers, not variables. 

Channels are another important AMAL concept. 
Channels are to AMAL programs what file numbers are 
to disk files. Once you've assigned a channel to a par- 
ticular object (say. channel I to sprite 8), all AMAL op- 
erations under that channel will apply to that object 
alone. AMAL allows up to 64 different channels, which 
means von can have up to 64 sprites. BOBs, and 
screens moving around simultaneously. Or. vou can 
dedicate more than one channel to a single object. For 
instance, you might want to assign two channels to the 
same object — one to move the object and the other to 



perform a "gravitational" pull on it. Since AMAL pro- 
grams continue until you stop them, a single call to the 
gravity channel would work throughout the program. 
There's some real potential here. 

Interrupts 

Interrupts are a part of any computer's operating sys- 
tem: Even- 60th of a second the CPU drops whatever 
it is doing and jumps into a special program thai does 
climes (such as reading the keyboard) most of us aren't 
even aware of. Once finished, it goes back to its main 
business, the program at hand. Here's an oversimpli- 
fied sequence of events: 

Step I: Signal from timer: It's time for an interrupt. 

Step 2: Stop main program, jump into interrupt. 

Step 3: Do interrupt routine. 

Step 4: Co back to main program. 

Machine language programmers love these inter- 
nipts because they can sneak their own private routines 
into the machine's interrupts, thus giving their pro- 
grams a form of multitasking. While machine language 
used to be the only route into interrupt programming, 
with AMOS, interrupts can now be used in the music 
commands (that's how you can have music playing 
while the program continues), timer, menus, and sev- 
eral other areas. That's nice, but these ate predefined 
interrupt chores. AMAL, however, lets you write the 
routine itself where it wedges nicely somewhere in the 
middle of step 3 above. 

Closely related to interrupts are screen refreshes, 
which also occur 60 times per second. AMAL can co- 
ordinate your program to the period between screen 
refreshes (called the VBL, for vertical blank period). 
This gives the BASIC" programmer as much power over 
object movements as any language, even machine lan- 
guage — but mote on that later. 

Once AMOS programmers begin to get used to 
AMAL, they will find themselves wondering when it's 
best to use AMAL to move objects and when to simplv 
do it in .AMOS. The answer is: When ii works line in 
plain AMOS, do it; otherwise, use AMAL. If vou don't 
have the AMOS compiler, you will probably choose 
AMAL most of the time. AMAL is capable of creating 
virtually an entire game, with the main program's only 
tasks being to start the action, keep the score, and an- 
nounce the winner, 

AMAL in Action 

Once you understand the main AMAL concepts, the 
next step is to learn the AMAL commands. Although the 
set is small and the manual explains each command fair- 
ly well, getting a handle on them isn't so easy. 

Rather than rehash the manual, we can learn more 
about these commands by creating a sample AMAL pro- 
gram that reads thejoystick and then moves a sprite ac- 
cordingly. This routine is part of a simple game I creat- 
ed, a variation of good of Pong, which is included here 
as Listing I. I present it primarily for edification, but 
don't let thai slop vou from typing it in and playing it. 
It's lun. 

We'll use sprite 9 as the one we will move (i.e., the 



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paddle). Let's start by creating the AMAL string: 

MS = "Loop: If J161 = 1 Jump Up;" 

Like most AMAL programs, this one starts with a label, 
in tliis case the word "Loop." The reason for this is thai 
AMAL programs, for the most part, are loops, and a 
label is AMAL's only way to identify jump points. "Hie 
only letter that really matters here is the L. The rest, 
all lowercase, are simply reminders of what this label 
does. When writing AMAL subprograms, yon must re- 
member not to use two labels starting with the same 
letter or AMAL will get confused. 

Now things get cryptic: "What's this "Jl&l" business 
inside an If statement? Jl is one of AMAL's built-in 
functions, and it reads joystick 1 . .As for the "&I," the 
ampersand (8c) is AMAL's way of performing a Boolean 
AND. Wliile there is not enough space here to explain 
Boolean logic, all you really need to know is this: AND- 
ing the joystick values with 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 will (ell 
you. respectively, if the joystick is being pushed up. 
down, left, right, or the button is being pressed. If 1 1 
AND I (Jl&l) is true (greater than 0), then the joystick 
must be being pushed upwards. 

Now we can see what this If statement is doing. If 
Jl&l is true, we jump to the Up routine. If the state- 
ment is false, then we fall to the next command: 

MS=M$+"lf J1&2=0J U" 

First, note the use of string addition. Also note that 
each line ends with a semicolon. While semicolons are 
not always required as command separators, it's safer 
to include them. The If statement here looks a lot like 
the previous one, the only differences being that ( 1) it 
tests for down pushes (via &2) and (2) it works in re- 
verse, jumping on the condition the joystick is no/ be- 
ing pushed down. By the way, notice that I have 
dropped the lowercase reminders on the Jump Loop 
command so that it simply reads, "J L." It works the 
same, saves some typing, and after you use AMAL for 
a while, it will make perfect logical sense. 

Okay, so if we fall through, the joystick must be 
pressed down. Now what? Try this: 

M$=MS+"lf Y>228 J L; LetY=Y+1; J L;" 

Things look fairly logical — just another If/Jump — ex- 
cept for the "Y." It, as well as X and A, are resen'ed reg- 
isters (variables) inside each AMAL channel that report 
the Y (vertical) coordinate, X (horizontal) coordinate, 
and sprite image number, respectively. Since this pad- 
dle routine will be channeled to sprite 9, the value in 

V will always be the Y coordinate of that sprite. If ibis 

Y value is greater than 228, we will be at the bottom of 
the screen, in which case we'll do nothing and jump 
back to the beginning. If it is not, we'll increase the 
value of Y using the Let command. Then we jump back 
to the beginning. 

Want to make your paddle move faster? Just add 2 
(or more) to Y Want to make your paddle move slower? 
Just place a Pause command at the beginning ol your 
loop, like this: 

MS="Loop: Pause ; If J1&1 Jump Up;" 

Pause halts the AMAL routine until the next vertical 
blank (VBL). in elfect coordinating AMAL programs 
with the screen refreshes. This means that your AMAL 
program will do only a single loop each interrupt. 



which is not a bad idea because it speeds up your main 
AMOS program without any loss at all of animation/ 
movement smoothness. In fact, you can use Pause and 
increase object speed just by lipping the pixel incre- 
ments without any loss of resolution (for example, Let 
Y=Y+3). 

Another way to achieve the same thing is to include 
a For/Next loop at the same spot, as in: 

MS="Loop: For R0=1 To 5 ; Next RO ..." 

The For/Next option is very flexible because of the way 
AMAL deals with For/Next loops: It performs only a 
single count per interrupt. In other words, it provides 
a built-in Pause at each count. The line above would 
slow your paddle down by a factor of five. 

As you might expect, the Up routine (for when the 
joystick is pushed nordi) is pretty much the same as the 
Down routine: 

MS=MS+"Up:lf Y<52 J t; Let Y=Y-1; J L; ' 

Here we reduce Y if it is greater than 52 and then jump 
back to the loop to start all over again. 

Our AMAL routine itself has now been written. The 



AMAL can create virtually an entire game, with 

the main program's only tasks being to start 
the action, keep score, and announce the winner. 



only thing left to do is to turn this AMAL subprogram 
on. Once it's on, you can forget about checking joy- 
sticks in BASIC because AMAL will keep on working 
even after the program ends. Simply enter: 

AMAL 9.MS : AMAL On 9 

I have no more space to detail the program, but I 
have left some remarks in the complete listing for fur- 
ther study. I encourage interested readers to pay spe- 
cial attention to the MOVEBALL procedure, which 
demonstrates how to use AMOS' sprite-moving capa- 
bilities in tandem with AMAL's. The result is a ball that 
bounces at varying angles and speeds. 

One article does not provide enough space to probe 
very deeply into AMAL — and just think, A.MAI, repre- 
sents only about 5'7t of the whole AMOS package. The 
recent release of "American AMOS" (see Dec. '92, p. 
20, for a review) should make this marvelous language 
accessible to more users on this side of The Pond. Eu- 
ropress has also begun marketing an even more pow- 
erful version, AMOS Professional, but plans lor Amer- 
ican distribution are not yet clear. While the fact that 
Europress is located in the LK may cause some incon- 
venience, there is good news for users seeking support. 
There is an .American resource center for AMOS that 
you can write to. call, or contact through your modem: 
David Lazarek, Digital Production Labs, 5 Hi F„ 11 lb 
St., Michigan City, IN 46360-3616; 219/874-6380; 
Computer People BBS: 219/874-0367. Also, an AMOS i 



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DCTV (Digital Composite Television) is a 
revolutionary new compressed video 
display and digitizing system for the 
Amiga. Using the Amiga as a com- 
pressed video buffer, DCTV creates a 
full color composite video display with 
all the color and resolution of television. 



Telephone 9 1 6/344-4825 FAX 9 1 6/635-0475 

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Listing 1, 

Dim SC0RE(2) 

Global NS,S1S,S2S,OFF,GAME0VER,SCORE[),LEVEL 

Do 

SETUP 

MOVEPADDLE 

Repeat 

STRTPOINT 

MOVEBALL 

SCORE 
Until GAMEOVER 
Loop 



Procedure SETUP 

SX=0 : S1=0 : S2=0 : GAMEOVER=0 
Rem create ball sprite 

Screen Open Q,320,200,32,Lowres 

Curs Off : CIs : Hide 

Ink 14 : Circle 9,9,5 : Paint 10,10 

Get Sprite 1,0,0 To 15,15 
Rem create paddle sprite 

CIs : Ink 15 : Box 0,0 To 6,20 : Paint 1,1 

Get Sprite 2,0,0 To 15,20 
Rem select level, players 

CIs : Centre "Choose level: 1 (hard] - 5 |easy|" : 
Print 

Repeat : AS=lnkey$ : Until AS<>" 

LEVEL=Val[AS) : If LEVEL>5 Then LEVEL=5 

Centre "1 or 2 players? " 

Repeat : AS=lnkeyS : Until AS<>" 

TWO=Val(AS] : If TWO>2 Then TWO=1 
Rem draw Pong box 

CIs : Ink 4 : Box 0,0 To 319,199 
Rem set sprites for collision detection 

Make Mask : Hot Spot 1,311 

Sprite 9,128,130,2 : Sprite 10,441,130,2 

SCORE(1)=0 : SCORE(2|=0 
End Proc 

Procedure STRTPOINT 

Sprite 8,283,0,1 : Amal Off 10 
Rem drop ball to start point 

Amal 8,"M 0,241,73 ; Let RA=Y" : Amal On 8 
Rem wait tilt it stops moving 

While Chanmv(S) : Wend 
Rem turn on computer's paddle 

Amal 10.NS : Amal On 10 
End Proc 

Procedure MOVEBALL 

OFF=0 : RV=-1 : If Rnd(1) Then RV=-RV 

Do 

Rem RV will decide which way ball should travel, 

RX which angle 

Z=0 : RV=-RV : RX=360*RV : Amreg(3)=RV 
Rem SP is speed of ball, AD affects ball's angle 

Y=V Sprite(8| : SP=Rnd(40)+60 : AD=Rndl5)+1 
Rem prepare Amal Move command for horizontal move 



at SP speed 

BS="M ,, +StrS[RX)+",0."+StrS(SP) 
Amal 8.BS : Amal On 8 
Rem start ball travel loop 
Repeat : 

Rem check if ball past either paddle 
If Y<54 Then Y = 54 : AD=-AD 
If Y>241 Then Y=241 : AD=-AD 
Rem change ball's Y placement directly from Amos, 
not Amal 

Add Y.AD : Ine 2 
Rem but wait till vertical blank to move it 

Wait Vbl : Sprite 8„Y, 
Rem set Amal register {RA( with ball's Y value 

Amreg(0| = Y Sprite(8)-10 
Rem if ball past either paddle exit both loops 
SX=X Sprite[8) 

»SX<122ThenOFF = 2: Exit 2 
» SX>452 Then OFF=1 : Exit 2 
Rem other way out is if ball collides with a paddle 
Until Sprite Col(8| and Z>5 
Amal Off 8 
Loop 
End Proc 

Procedure MOVEPADDLE 

Rem paddle routine is explained in article 
MS="Loop: If J1&1 Jump Up;" 

MS=MS + "lf J1&2 = 0J L," 

MS=MS+"lf Y>228 J L; Let Y=Y + 1; J L;" 

MS=MS+"Up:lf Y<52 J L; Let Y=Y-1; J L;" 

Amal9,MS : Amal On 9 

Rem if two-player game, convert all J1's to JO's (other 
joystick) 

If TWO=2 

NS=MS : Do : P=lnstr(NS,"J1"] + 1 : Exit If P=1 : 
MidS(NS.P|="0" : Loop 
Rem if one-player 
Else 

Rem Find difference between ball's Y |RA| 
and paddle's (Y) 

NS = NS+"Loop: Let R1 = RA-Y ;■ 
Rem Insert diff as Y distance in Move com 
mand 

Rem and at speed selected by LEVEL 
NS = NS+"M 0,R1,"+StrS(LEVEL + 2|+";J L" 
End If 
End Proc 

Procedure SCORE 

SCORE|OFF)=SCORE(OFF) + 1 

Pen 5 : Paper 

Locate 7,1 : Print SCORE|1) 

Locate 30,1 : Print SCORE(2| 

lfSCORE(OFF)>19 

Locate 6 + (OFF-1)*23,2 : Pen 3 : Print "Win 



GAMEOVER = 1 : Wait 240 



End If 
End Proc 



users' group exists in the UK: The AMOS (Hub, I Low- 
er Moor, Whiddon Valley, Barnstaple, N. Devon, EX32 
8NW, UK. ■ 



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writer on computer programming. Write to him c/o Amiga- 
World, Editorial Dept, 80 Elm St, Peterborough, NH 03458. 



48 February 1993 




The Great Amiga 

Back(up) Off! 




Get out the maple syrup and butter — we've rounded up seven 

disk-devouring hard-drive back-up utilities for an all-out speed/features 

competition. Bring on those "flopjacks," Gertie! 




OR MANY AMIGA owners, backing up a hard 
drive can bring on a stomach ache mighty Fast. No 
one wants to spend an afternoon feeding piles of 
diskettes into an insatiable back-up program. How 
do you spell r-e-1-i-e-f? Look for a fast, well-de- 
signed back-up program with lots of neat features. 
Fortunately. Amiga owners can choose from a broad 
selection of products offering a wide range of prices, 
performance, and feature sets. Yon can pa) - from S25 



to $80 for a back-up program. You can find fast and 
slow operators, and support for just floppies or for a 
range of back-up devices. And that's just the beginning. 
What this means, unfortunately, is that finding the 
back-up program that best matches your needs can be 
a challenging task at best. 

To help you in your search, we've organized a buyer's 
guide offering comparative evaluations of seven lead- 
ing commercial Amiga hard-drive back-up utilities. 



By Jeff James 



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Programs were tested on a variety of back-up configu- 
rations, including a SCSI tape drive. For a standard of 
comparison, we included a shareware back-up program 
(Felix R. [eske's BackUP v3.5) to match against the 
commercial offerings. 

in addition to rating back-up times for each pro- 
gram (see the accompanying graphs in Figures 1-3 for 
results), we also prepared a comprehensive comparison 
of the many other features and capabilities of these sev- 
en programs, fables l-fi present the major features of 
each program for side-by-side comparison. Although 
not stated in the chart, please note that all programs 
are AmigaDOS 2.0 compatible and support standard 
880K floppies. 

Programs wete timed in three different back-up tests. 
The first involved backing up 5.3MB (5,322,140 bytes 
in 5:57 liles) of data from hard drive to floppy disks with 
the utilities' file-verification option turned off (see fig- 
ure 1 ), The second test was the same as the first, except 
that verification was turned on (Figure 2). Finally, three 
of the programs were tested with a SCSI streaming- 




Figure 1. Floppy hack-up times (verification off). 




Figure 2, Floppy back-up times (verification on). 



tape drive, backing up a 29.6MB (29,608,594 bytes in 
1438 files) bard-drive partition to New Horizons' 
Touchdown 100 streaming-tape drive (Figure 3). 

Ami-Back 2.0e 

Moonlighter Software Development 

S79.95 

Although a relative newcomer to the Amiga hack-up 
software scene, Ami-Back behaves like a seasoned vet- 
eran. It landed squarely in the middle of the pack in 
the nonverified floppy back-up test, moved up to sec- 
ond place in the verified test, and took first by a mere 
second in the streaming-tape benchmark. 

Ami-Back's solid performance in those back-up tests 
is bolstered by an impressive features list. Ami-Back can 
back tip and restore to a lengthy list of devices, includ- 
ing removable hard-disk, streaming-tape, and digital- 
audio-tape (DAT) drives. Other features abound, in- 
cluding support for Commodore's new AinigaGnidc 
on-line help system, a "91 1-recovery" mode that can 
grab data from crashed hard disks, and a slick, icon- 
driven back-up scheduler. 

Ami-Back is not completely without faults; although 
improved from earlier revisions, the instruction man- 
ual still needs some revamping. Ami-Back also ranks 
in a tie as the most expensive Amiga back-up program 
on the market. However, if you're serious about your 
hard-drive backups, take a close look at Ami-Back. 

Byte'n'Back 3.1.1 

Spirit Technology 

$29.95 

If speed were king, Byte'n'Back would rule over the 
back-up pack. Although Byte'n'Back narrowly came out 
on top in the nonverified floppy backup, it rocketed 
through the second test nearly a lull minute ahead of 
its closest competitor. Developed in the UK by the pro- 
gramming house Bytes n' Pieces, Byte'n'Back sports a 
packaging claim that "Hitter chip and disk hardware 
[are] used directly for optimum performance." What- 
ever the reason, Bvte'n'Back was the fastest program 
tested in both floppy categories. 

U n fortunately, this speed is offset by an almost em- 
barrassingly small list of features. It can handle a max- 
imum of only two floppy drives and lacks support for 
tape drives, removable cartridges, and other mass- 
storage media. The included lS-page manual looks as 
if it was hastily run off on a photocopier. Regarding 
the format in which the program saves data, inserting 
a Byie'n'Back-format back-up disk into any standard 
Amiga floppy drive caused the shareware program Vir- 
usChecker v6.15 to flag each of Bvte'n'Back's back-up 
disks as having boot-block trouble. Such problems 
aside, if you just need support for floppy drives and 
speed is your only consideration, give Byte'n'Back a 
look. 

ExpressCopy 1.56 

Express-Way Software 
S49.95 

Developed in 1990 and distributed by Express-Way 
Software, ExpressCopy is beginning to show its age. 
Comprising two separate programs (ExpressCopy and i 



50 February 1993 



Finally! True Cinematic Quality Morphing For The Amiga®! 




AS DC is not the first to advertise 
"cinematic quality morphing" for the 
Commodore Amiga". Having seen 
the other products, there's obviously 
more than one way to define that 
term. 

To us, "cinematic quality morphing" 
means these things: 

• Morphing must be fast. 

In a production environment, time is 
money. ASDG's MorphPlus " is the 
fastest morphing product available 
for the Commodore Amiga . 
MorphPlus" powers through 
complicated full overscan morphs 3 
to 1 1 times faster than the other 
products. 



What's 



Plus? 




• Morphing must be easy. 

Experts in the field praise the 
intuitive design of the MorphPlus" 
user interface which lets them create 
sophisticated full motion morphs in 
minutes instead of weeks. 

•Morphing must be high quality 

(so that it truly can be used for 
cinematic or professional video 
applications). MorphPlus" is already 
in use in Hollywood productions, 
replacing high end systems. 



7 ^^m - jH| 




This is what we mean by "cinematic 
quality morphing." 

If these are the criteria you would 
use, then MorphPlus" is the choice 
you should make. 

See it at your local dealer! 



AiTJG 




925 Stewart Street Madison, Wl 53713 
608/273-6585 



And 

More! 



The following names are trademarked by the indicated companies: MorphPlus: ASDC Incorporated, Amiga: Commodore Amiga Inc. 

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Back-up Utilities: 



Features and Options 



Product Information 


Program Ami-Back 2.0e 


Byte 'n' Back 3.1.1 


ExpressCopy 1 .56 


FlashBack v2.05 


MRBackup Pro. 1.12 


OuarterBack 5.0,2 


SuperBack 2.0 


BackUP v3,5 


Moonlighter 
Publisher Software 


Spirit 
Technology 


Express-Way 
Software 


Avanced Storage 
Systems 


MR Software 


Central Coast 
New Horizons 


The Disc 
Company 


Felix R.Jeske 


List Price 575.95 


529.35 


S49.95 


$79.00 


S25 (Direct) 


S75.00 


S39.95 


S1 5 shareware fee 


Table 1: System Requirements 


RAM required 1 MB 


512K 


1MB 


1MB 


1MB 


1MB 


512K 


1MB 


AmigaDOS 2.0 interface • 


O 


O 


O 


O 


• 


O 


3 


Ease of installation Excellent 


Good 


Fair 


Good 


Fair 


Excellent 


Good 


Good 




Table 2: Backup Features 


Format of Backup Disks 


AmigaDOS O O 


• 


O 


• 


O 


O 


Proprietary • • 


o 


• 


% 




• 










o 


O 


















• 


Adjustable data compression O 


O 





o 


• 


• 


o 






Target Devices 






o 


• 






o 


o 








Max # of B80K drives supported 4 














4 




4 


I 






4 


Applied Engineering AEHD 





• 


* 


O 




O 


O 


Removable hard drives • 


O 


o 


% 


m 




O 


O 




SCSI ■::.-::■;.: • 


O 






• • 


O 


O 


o 


\3 




























Full backup 9 


• 


• 


• 


• 




• 


• 






Image backup (AMAWMS-DOS) • 








O 




o 


o 


o 


o 


• 


Recovery backup • 






o 


O 




c 


o 






Backs up w/archhre hit set • 


• 




• 


• 




• 


• 


Backs up alter specified date • 


o 




• 






o 


o 


• 


Backs up within data range • 


o 




• 


o 




o 


o 




Backs up by directory • 


• 






• 




• 


• 


• 


Backs up by widcard/fflenarne • 


• 




• 


• 




c 


• 




n 




o 


o 






o 


o 








Table 3: Restore Features 


Restores to a different directory • 






• 


• 




• 


• 


Restores to a different drive • 


• 




• 


• 




• 


• 


Restore to multiple devices • 


O 




o 


o 




o 


o 


Prompts belore overwriting files • 


• 




• 


• • 


• 


• 


Selective file restore • 


o 




• 


• 




• 


• 




Table 4: Tape Drive Features 


Direct SCSI tape control • 


o 


o 


** 


o 




o 


o 


Retention tapes • 


o 


o 


** 


• 




n 


o 






Rewind tapes • 


o 


o 


ft* 










• 




o 


o 



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Program Ami-Back 2.0e 


Byte 'n' Back 3.1.1 


ExpressCopy 1.56 


Hashfiackv2.05 


MRBackup Pro. 1.12 


QuarterBack 5.0.2 


SuperBack 2.0 


BackUP v3.5 


Erase tapes • 


O 


o 


** 


• 


• 


O 


O 


Scan tapes o 


O 


o 






O 


O 


O 




• 


Table 5: Other Features 


ARexx support Q 


O 


• 


o 


• 


• 


O 


O 


On-line help • 


O 





• 


o 


o 


O 


O 


Keyboard equivalents • 





• 


o 


o 




• 


O 


Password protection • 


O 





o 


o 




O 


O 


Hard & Softlinks support • 


O 


o 


o 


o 




o 


O 


Saves user configuration • 


• 


• 


• 


• 




o 


• 


Supports macros O 


o 


a 





• 




o 


o 


Amiga voice support O 


o 


o 


o 


• 


o 


o 


o 


Backup Scheduling • 





a 


f» 


3 


3 


o 


o 


Graphic-based • 


o 





o 


o 


o 





o 


Script-based 





3 





o 


a 


o 


o 


Other Utilities Included O 





O 





Re mgmnt. 





o 


o 




Table 6: Docs & Tech Support 


Overall documentation quality Good 


Poor 


Good 






Good 


Good 


N/A 


Good 


Good 


Glossary 


O 


• 


o 


o 


O 


• 


N/A 


Index • 


O 





o 


• 


O 


• 


N/A 


Tech support number • 


• 


• 


• 


• 


• 


• 


N/A 






Tech support BBS • 






o 


o 


o 


o 


N/A 


(J 




Tech support FAX • 


• 


o 


• 


• 


• 


o 


N/A 







Legend 

• Program does specified operation completely. 

0> Program does specified operation only to a limited extent. 

O Program does not support operation in question. 



'Applied Engineering's high-density floppy drive (AEHO) is supported, although it will work only 

under AmigaDOS 1.3, 
"Flashback does support SCSI Tape Drives, although it requires that a stand-alone SCSI driver 

be supplied by the SCSI controller's manufacturer to f 



Express* in|i\ Restore), ExpressCopy has a respectable 
features list, including support For up to four 880K 
floppy drives, Applied Engineering's high-density flop- 
py, and a healthy set of file-inclusion and -exclusion op- 
tions. Only it and MRBackup Pro save data in Amiga- 
DOS format 

Back-tip times were a liule on the slow side, with Ex- 
pressCopy ending up near the bottom of the pack on 
both (loppy-disk tests. In the features race, Express- 
Copy is simply outgunned by such feature-laden pro- 
grams as Ami-Back, Quarterback, and MRBackup Pro. 
ExpressCopy's interface is somewhat cluttered and 
confusing; during backups, the program flips between 
the back-up screen and an unusual system of windows 
on the Workbench screen. 

ExpressCopy does have a number of things going for 
it. It's the only back-up program tested here that can 
make duplicate copies of back-up disks, and the infor- 
mative spiral-bound manual is a pleasure to read. If 
you have a pressing need for back-up disks in Amiga- 
DOS format, ExpressCopy is worth a look. 

FlashBack v2.05 

Advanced Storage Systems 

S79 

FlashBack placed well in both floppy back-up tests, 
coming in third in each case. In terms of features, 



FlashBack falls squarely in the gap between the floppy- 
oriented back-up programs (Byte'n'Back, SuperBack, 
and ExpressCopy) and the feature-laden back-up jug- 
gernauts (Ami-Back and Quarterback). FlashBack is 
one of three back-up programs (including Ami-Back 
and Quarterback) to support Image file backups, allow- 
ing MS-DOS and Mac partitions (accessible through an 
emulator) to be backed up to a back-up device. 

FlashBack does support SCSI tape drives; however, 
that support requires a tape driver supplied by the 
manufacturer of the SCSI controller. Since the A3000 
1 used to test these programs does not ship with a SCSI 
driver (none of Commodore's machines do), FlashBack 
refused to recognize the SCSI tape drive used in those 
tests. FlashBack was designed with support for Ad- 
vanced Storage Systems' own Nexus SCSI controller in 
mind; if von own one, FlashBack is an excellent choice. 



MRBackup Professional 1.12 


MR Software 


S25 



Formerly published by the now defunct TTR devel- 
opment, MRBackup Pro has been available — in one 
form or another — for quite some time. A commercial 
version of Mark Rinfrct's popular shareware back-up 
program MRBackup, MRBackup Pro is now distribut- 
ed and supported directly by its author. *- 



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In terms of back-up speed, MRBackup Pro came in 
dead last in every test, including backing up to tape 
drive. Configuring MRBackup Pro to include or ex- 
clude certain files during a backup — a point-and-elick 
operation in other back-up programs — requires that 
the user create script-like "filter" files. 

Slow back-up speeds and script-file profusion aside, 
MRBackup offers a wealth of features. It's the only 
back-up program we tested that can save data in both 
AmigaDOS and variable (12/16-bit) compressed for- 
mats. Its ARexx support was the best of any program 
tested, with nearly four dozen available commands. 




29,608,594 bytes in 1438 files 



Figure 3. SCSI streaming-tape back-up times. 



Finally, the included file manager allows users to per- 
form a wide range of file-management operations, 
such as copying, moving, and deleting large numbers 
of files. If you need a powerful set of ARexx com- 
mands in your back-up program and don't mind tan- 
gling with script files, MRBackup Pro is the program 
to get. 

QuarterBack 5.0.2 

Central Coast / New Horizons 

$75 

Over several years and quite a few revisions, Quar- 
terback remains one of the most popular Amiga pro- 
grams available; the latest version of Quarterback is the 
best version yet. 

QuarterBack turned in solid performances in all 
three tests, coming in second in the nonverified (loppy 
back-up, fourth in the verified test, and a close second 
in the tape back-up benchmark. These respectable 
back-up times are supported by a lengthy features list, 
including support for a wide range of back-up media 
and a wide range of back-up options. Like Ami-Back, 
Quarterback supports SCSI back-up devices directly 
(unlike MRBackup Pro, which requires a software tape 
handler and editing of your mountlist file, and Flash- 
Back, which requires that the SCSI controller have its 
own tape driver). 

Quarterback's AmigaDOS 2.0-adherent interface 
was arguably the cleanest and most uncluttered of the 
bunch, making finding a certain feature or option 



quick and painless. Quarterback's developers have tak- 
en a good program and made it a great one. 

SuperBack 2.0 

The Disc Co, 

$39.95 

SuperBack has been available in the Amiga market 
for quite some time. Developed by MKsofi and pub- 
lished by The Disc Company (which is now a wholly 
owned subsidiary of Activision), SuperBack — like 
Byte'n'Back and ExpressCopy — supports only hard- 
drive backups to floppy drives. 

SuperBack had a mediocre showing in the floppy- 
disk back-up tests, ending up in fifth place in both of 
them. SuperBack's interface proved to be rather archa- 
ic and unintuitive. Unlike most of the other back-up 
programs tested, SuperBack does not allow the user to 
change floppy disks until all of the disks in the back- 
up drives have been filled. In terms of features, Super- 
Back has only three major back-up options, and it does 
not allow files and directories to be excluded on the ba- 
sis of pattern matching or wildcards. 

A few years ago, SuperBack may have been one of 
the best back-up programs available for the Amiga. To- 
day, SuperBack is an average performer without any 
exceptional features. 

Rating the Pack 

After all of the testing and comparisons, most of these 
programs fall within one of two broad categories. Pro- 
grams like FxpressCopy, Byte'n'Back, and SuperBack 
concentrate primarily on backups to floppy drives, with 
correspondingly small feature sets. At the other ex- 
treme, Ami-Back, QuarterBack, and MRBackup Pro 
take the kitchen-sink approach, throwing in a wide as- 
sortment of features and capabilities. FlashBack falls 
between these two camps — offering advanced features 
such as tape support, image backups, and on-line help, 
but lacking Others such as ARexx support. 

So which back-up program is for you? If you perform 
a limited number of back-ups. don't need support for 
media other than floppy drives, and want to get your 
back-up done in a hurry, Byte'n'Back is a good choice. 
Keep in mind, however, that Byte'n'Back is a one-trick 
badc-up pony; it oilers great speed, but not much else. 

At S25, the best value is undoubtedly MRBackup Pro, 
which boasts a robust range of feauires and a bonus file- 
management utility. MRBackup's heavy reliance upon 
script files, however, may deter novice users. 

As for the best overall back-up program, that award 
is shared between two solid candidates: Ami-Back and 
QuarterBack. The gap between these programs and 
the rest of the back-up utilities reviewed here is a wide 
one, with Ami-Back and Quarterback both offering 
impressive lists of features, quick back-up times, and 
slick, responsive interfaces. Ami-Back and Quarter- 
back herald a new era in Amiga utility software; 
whichever you choose, you won't be disappointed. ■ 

Jeff James has been using hard-drive equipped Amigas for 
more than four years. A frequent contributor to several com- 
puter publications, he is currently a student at Colorado State 
University where he is majoring in Technical Journalism. 
Contact him c/o AmigaWorld. Editorial Dept., SO Elm St., 
Peterborough, NH 03458. 



54 February 1993 



□ [Workbench 



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i^wv^-rfd*** 




Digging in to DOS 

A SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE AMIGA'S RELEASE 2 OPERATING SYSTEM 



In part 4 of our 

series we tell you how to use 

the bitmapped and outline 



Workbench 2 pro- 
vides some much 
needed enhance- 
ment to the Amiga's 
system of handling different 
sizes and styles of text. Before 
the release of AmigaDOS 2.0, 
the only Workbench application 
that could make use of the various 
fonts provided with the system was 
Notepad, a program that was eliminated in 
2.0. As far as the Workbench itself was concerned, you 
could choose any style or size of text that you want- 
ed — as long it was Topaz 8 or Topaz 9. By contrast, the 
new AmigaDOS gives you the freedom to choose the 
typeface in which Workbench text appears, and sup- 
plies more font styles and sizes from which to choose. 
Workbench 2 retains the traditional bitmapped sys- 
tem fonts, and adds support for Compugraphic outline 
fonts. Having two different kinds of text fonts available 
can be confusing, but is much less so once you under- 
stand their relative strengths and weaknesses. The 
main difference between bitmapped fonts and outline 
fonts is the way in which they store information about 
the shape of text characters. Bitmapped, or raster, 



text fonts included with 
AmigaDOS 2. 



fonts contain informa- 
tion about the actual 
dot pattern that forms 
each line of the letter 
("three blank spaces, then 
two black dots, then two 
more blank spaces," etc.). 
Outline, or vector, fonts contain 
instructions for how to draw the 
lines that form the character ("ascend 
from the baseline at a 60-degree angle for 
78% of the character's height, then descend at a 60- 
degree angle for the same distance"). 

Pros and Cons 

The traditional Amiga system fonts are bitmaps, and 
their font files contain pictures of each text character 
at a fixed size. Release 2 does provide some tools for 
scaling (changing the size) of bitmapped fonts, but 
even so, it is not possible to produce smooth text char- 
acters at large sizes. At best, characters that use slanted 
lines or curves have ajagged, "stair-step" look to them. 
At worst, characters may be misshapen, with one side 
enlarged more than the other in order to fit a partic- 
ular size. For really good results, you need an individ- ' 



BY SHELDON LEEMON 



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ually designed font file for each size of a bitmapped 
lypeface that you intend to use. On the other hand, 
bitmapped fonts are quick to load, and their file sizes 
are generally smaller than those of outline fonts. 

The font data and rendering software for the new 2.0 
outline fonts is provided by AGFA Compugraphic, a 
large vendor of typefaces. Because these font files con- 
tain instructions on how to draw the characters, and 
not just pictures of their shapes, they permit applica- 
tions to generate type at almost any given size from a 
single font file. And among the text generated, large 
characters look just as smooth and well-rounded as 
smaller ones. This makes outline fonts particularly use- 
ful for output to devices of differing resolutions, such 
as monitors (about 75 dots per inch) and printers 
( 180-300 dots per inch). Outline fonts give you good- 
looking printouts even on a dot-matrix printer. 




B itnap 
Font 



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Outline 
Font 



Bitmapped fonts retain their blocky shape when enlarged, but outline 
fonts take advantage of higher resolutions to present a smoother 
appearance. 



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Existing Out Sine Typefaces 



[HBironts 

CaslMiMS 
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You can use the Fountain program {called lntellifont in 3.0) to change 
the default sizes for Compugraphic fonts appearing in text reques- 
ters, and to generate system-bitmapped fonts. 



The major drawback to outline fonts is that gener- 
ating text characters from mathematical instructions is 
relatively slow and requires a fair amount ofprocessing 
power. You cannot even see a preview of the type style 
until your computer has generated the entire character 
set, a process that takes about ten seconds if you have 
a hard drive and accelerator, longer if not. Another dis- 
advantage is that small text may not be as well-formed 
as larger characters, because it is difficult to draw a line 
at a precise angle when you only have a small grid of 
dots to work with. 

The Compugraphic technology used in Workbench 
2 is just one of many that are currently in use on per- 
sonal computer systems. Adobe's PostScript font tech- 
nology is probably the most famous, but other popular 
formats include Microsoft's TrueType and Bitstream's 
outline fonts. On the Amiga, final Copy II uses a pro- 
prietary system of outline fonts. 

Although these systems operate on the same general 
principle as the Compugraphic fonts, none of the fonts 
themselves are directly compatible. In fact, several dif- 
ferent versions ol Compugraphic's own font technolo- 
gy have been used at various times by .Amiga programs 
such as Professional Page and DynaCADD, and even 
these cannot be used interchangeably with the current 
version. It is possible, however, to convert some Type 
1 PostScript fonts to Compugraphic outline fonts using 
the FontManager utility included with Cold Disk's Pro- 
fessional Page program. There are many public-do- 
main PostScript fonts, and quite a few of them have al- 
ready been converted to 2.0 Compugraphic format. 
You can also purchase a wide variety of additional 
Compugraphic typefaces from Gold Disk, or from 
AGFA Compugraphic itself. 

In Practice 

Once you have release 2 installed, how do you take ad- 
vantage of the new fonts? The short answer is that you 
use them just like the old fonts. When a program 
checks to see what fonts are available, the system soft- 
ware reports that Compugraphic fonts such as CG- 
Times and CGTriumvirate are available in default sizes 
of 15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 pixels high. There are, how- 
ever, no actual bitmaps for these fonts stored on the 
disk. When you select CGTimes 30, for example, the 
operating system uses the outline-font data to create a 
system bitmap of the CGTimes font at size 30. 

What if you want to use a size other than the de- 
faults? If the program you are using takes advantage 
of the new ASL font requester that is provided as pari 
of release 2. 1 , you can create a new type size very easily. 
In addition to presenting a scrolling list of available 
sizes, the requester has a selection box in which you can 
specify the type size by clicking in the text gadget and 
ivping in the numbers. If you type in a font size of 100, 
that is what you will get. Because Workbench 2 includes 
bitmap-scaling routines, this procedure works even 
with the normal bitmapped system fonts such as Topaz, 
Diamond, and Ruby. The difference here is that while 
you can make the system fonts bigger, they w : ill not look 
very good at the large sizes and may even appear dis- 
torted. You should also note that there is a limit to how 
large you can make your fonts. Many programs will not 
recognize fonts that arc taller than 160 pixels. 

What about those older programs that do not use ei- 
ther the ASL font requester or a similar requester that • 



56 February 1993 




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Compare us to the competition! Do they offer 256 grayscales? Do they 
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allows you to specif}' type size? You can still use custom 
type sizes with those applications through the Fountain 
program in the System drawer (on 3.0, the name of this 
application was changed to Intellifont). When you run 
Fountain, you will see a list of the fonts in the current 
FONTS: drawer, and a button in the lower-right corner 
marked Modify Existing Typefaces. Pressing that button 
takes you to a screen displaying all of your Compugraph- 
ic fonts in a list. When you select a typeface, the default 
sizes for that face appear. You can delete any of the 
default sizes or add new ones. Once you've made all of 
the changes you want, press the Perform Changes button 
and you will have a new set of default sizes. From then 
on, when an application requests the available sizes for 
those fonts, it will see the sizes that you set. 

Akhough Appendix D of the 2.0 manual states that 
you can change the default sizes for all fonts at once 
by setting an environment variable called Fountain, this 
does not seem to be true in the current version (if it 
ever was). If you want to change the default sizes, stick 
to using Fountain. 

You can also use Fountain to create and save actual 
bitmapped system fonts for any size Compugraphic 
font. Although this takes up more disk space, it will 
be faster to load that particular size font, because the 
system won't have to generate it each time. The fonts 
you generate can also be used on 1 3 systems, and can 
be converted to Video Toaster bitmapped-font format 
using the ToastFont program. ■ 



Select Screen Text 



ED G 



courier 

CS Cen t ury S choo Ibook 

CSCenturySchoolbcokBI 

CS Century S choolbookBo Id 



courier 



14 
IS 
18 

24 



1 

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123 AaBbCcDdEeFfC 



OK 



Cancel 



The 2.1 ASL font requester not only presents a scrolling list of available 
type sizes, but also lets you enter a size not already on the list. 

Sheldon Leemon, a respected authority on the Amiga, recently 
finished the fourth edition oj the AmigaDOS Reference Guide 
(Compute! Boohs), a guide In using the CI J under Operating- 
system releases 2 and 3. When he's not writing, you ran often 
find him at Slipped Dish, a Detroit-men Amiga dealership. 



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A continuing series 

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graphics. 



Putting Things In 
Perspective" Part 2 



By Joel Hagen 



LAST MONTH'S COLUMN ex- 
plored using aerial perspective as a 
method of achieving an illusion of 
depth in landscape painting. In illus- 
trating the technique, a landscape was 
painted In a series of simplified over- 
lapping planes. This same approach 
serves to explore the phenomenon of 
parallax as it applies to animation. 

The Parallax View 

Parallax is defined as the apparent 
displacement ol an observed object due 
to a change in position of the observer. 
Our stereo vision is the result of paral- 
lax due to the separation of our two 
eyes. Close one eye, hold up your 
thumb, and stare past it to a point 
across the room. Now switch eyes and 
stare at the same point. The thumb 
appears in a different space relative to 
the rest of the room. Astronomers use 
parallax to measure the distance lo 
stars as the earth changes position in 
its orbit. 

When you are riding in a car looking 
out a side window, notice how parked 
cars, fences, and anything else near 
you whips by at a pretty fast speed. 
Objects farther from your eye, however, 
seem to move past your field of view 
more slowly. And very distant areas 
hardly move at all. Amiga animators 
can simulate this parallax effect to 
heighten the illusion of depth in a 
moving scene. One way to do this is by 
painting the image in independent 
layers that can be scrolled at different 
rates. If these animated layers are 
seamless loops, an effect of continuous 
motion results. You frequently see such 
loops scrolling behind tunning cartoon 
characters. 

For example, in the accompanying 
illustration, the lop-left panel depicts a 
stationary background image 320 pix- 
els wide, which you can then copy to 
every frame of a 100-frame animation. 
The middle ground image (center left) 
might be 480 pixels wide, and would 



be moved its own width over the course 
of the 100 frames. The foreground 
image (bottom right) might be 960 
pixels wide, and also he moved its own 
width over the 100 frames. Thus, each 
successive layer travels faster to cover a 
greater distance in the same time peri- 
od. You can paint and animate as many 
layers as you like, each one wider than 
the last As you might guess, there are 
some tricks to this, so let's take the 
process step by step in DehixePaint 
(Electronic Arts). 

First, create and save the background 
as a Picture at whatever resolution and 
screen size you intend for the finished 
animation, for instance '520x200. Next, 
create the middle ground image. To do 
this, clear the screen and select Page 
Size from the Picture menu. Enter a 
new width greater than '.V20 that is a 
multiple of 16, for example 180. You 
can scroll left and right to paint within 
this image space by using the left and 
right cursor (arrow) keys. 

For the middle ground layer to play 
in a continuous loop, its right edge 
must exactly match its left edge. One 
way to do this is to paint a finished 
section of this layer in the middle of 
your screen, about 100 pixels wide. 
Then use the right mouse button to cut 
a brush that divides this section in half. 
Using the cursor keys to scroll, careful- 
ly place the right half of die landscape 
section on the left side of the screen 
and the left section on the right side of 
the screen as illustrated in the "Middle 
Ground" panel. Now, complete the 
landscape — making sure not to ap- 
proach the edges of the screen as you 
paint. Save this middle ground as a 
Picture. 

Repeat the same process for the 
foreground, with a Page Size wider 
than that of the previous layer, for 
instance 960, another multiple of 16. 
You can create as many layers as you 



60 February 1993 



Perspective tricks in Part 2 show how simulating the parallax effect can 
heighten the illusion of depth in your animations. 



like in this manner, each wider than 
the last. Save each layer as a Picture, 

Ready to Scroll 

In create the parallax scroll anima- 
tion, load the background image as a 
Picture and enter 100 for Set.# of 
Frames in the Anim menu (or whatever 
number of frames your animation will 
be). Next, load the middle ground 
image as a Brush. 1 repeal, as a Brush, 
not as a Picture. This allows you to 
manipulate images larger than the 
screen. Make the background color 
transparent in the brush by first select- 
ing dial color with the right mouse 
bullon. Next, in DPaint4, select 
Change Transparency from the Brush 
submenu of the Color menu. In 
DpaintS, Change Transparency is in 
the Change Color submenu of the 
Brush menu. A hug in DpaintS re- 
quires you to perform this operation 
twice to have it lake effect. Use another 
right mouse-button color the first time, 
then the proper right mouse-button 
background color the second time. 

Next, press the Alt-x keyboard com- 
bination twice to shift the handle to the 
lower-left corner of the brush. Drag 
your cursor/brush-handle completely to 
die lower-left corner of frame 1, stamp 
it down with the left button, and click 
on Undo. Bring up the Move requester 
and enter the width of the brush as the 
X Distance. Preview and then press the 
Draw button. When the Draw opera- 
tion is complete, verify that you are 
again on frame 1 and ihen press Alt-x 
again to shift the brush-handle to the 
lower right of the 480-pixel brush. 
Drag the cursor again to the lower-left 
corner of frame 1, stamp it in place. 
and undo. Return to the Move 
requester, preview again, and then click 
on Draw. The result should be a con- 
tinuous, seamless scroll of the middle 



SCROLLINB LOOPS 




ground in front of the background 
hills. 

Load the next layer as a Brush and 
repeat the entire process. Use the new 
brush width as the X Distance in the 
Move requester — f)60 in the case of our 
foreground example. Press the 4 key to 
play the animation in an endless loop. 
The nearer sections ol landscape scroll 
faster than those more distant, mimick- 
ing the parallax phenomenon and 
adding a powerful illusion of depth to 
your creation. Experiment to deter- 
mine the best brush widdis for succes- 
sive layers. A seamless parallax loop 
like this is a good backdrop For a walk- 
ing or nmning character like the road- 
runner animbrush shown in ibe illus- 
tration. 

Joel Haven's credits intitule work in ml, 
astronomy, science fiction, and software 
development. Write to him at 10512 
Sawyer. Oakdale. CA 95361. Phase 
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope 
for a reply. 



In "Desert Bun" 
(above), the land- 
scape animation 
represented on the 
right is composed of 
the layers shown on 
the left. Each layer 
Is scrolled at a 
different rate to 
create a seamless 
parallax loop that 
can serve as a 
background for a 
running character. 




AmigtiWvrltl 61 




The Camcorder 
Can Do! 

With a little finessing, you can get a camcorder 

to serve you well as the sole or major piece of video gear 

in your Amiga studio. 



By Geoffrey Williams 



GETTING INVOLVED WITH comput- 
er video can be expensive. Instead of 
drooling over a S200 piece of software 
or even a $1000 24-bit board, you fine! 
yourself hungering for video gear 
starting at S2000 to S 10,000 and up. 
This does not mean, however, that 
video is only for the fiscally endowed. 
It is possible to do video work with a 
very small investment. The key is to 
know exactly what you need and get 
only that If video is more of a hobby 
than a vocation, it is especially impor- 
tant to spend your money wisely. 

The most important first purchase is 
your video recorder, What is the best 
tvpe of recorder for someone getting 
started on a budget? That miracle of 
miniaturization and modern technolo- 
gy, the camcorder. With a single pur- 
chase you will acquire a means for 
recording live video and a recording 
deck for laying down Amiga graphics 
onto tape. After discussing the basics of 
how to choose a camcorder, I'll explain 
how you can make it work with 
other equipment, and describe some of 
the really neal things you can do with it 
through your Amiga. 

Formats and Features 

Selecting a camcorder is lough, as 
there are so many choices available. 
But as the market increases, prices 
decrease. Now, most camcorders re- 
quire a reasonably small investment. 
Even an industrial-quality Panasonic 



S-VHS camcorder costs only around 
SI 300, and others are much less. 

The type of tape format you want to 
use should be one ot vour first consid- 
erations, '[here are three basic l\pes of 
camcorders: VHS, S-VHS, and Hi-8. If 
vou plan to make copies of your tapes 
or do editing from them, you can rule 
out VHS. Copying from one VHS tape 
to another does not yield a very good 
final product, especially with Amiga 
graphics, which tend to bleed and 
crawl on tape. 

SATIS and Hi-8 both give you very 
good picture quality, and you can gel 
reasonably good results by copying to a 
second tape — even to VHS. The im- 
portant thing to remember, i hough, is 
that you cannot play either of these 
tape formats directly from most home 
VCRs. 

S-VHS tape comes in two varieties. 
The regular format comes housed in a 
cassette the same size as VHS tape 
uses. Camcorders that support this 
formal can also play VHS tapes and 
record onto ilieni in the VHS format. 
The other format, S-VHS-C, comes in 
miniature cassettes. It is used in palm- 
corders and similarly small cameras, 
which cannot play or record regular- 
size VHS tape directly. You can buy 
adapters, however, in which to place 
the smaller tape so thai you can play a 
small tape recorded in VHS mode in 
your home VHS VCR. 

Hi-S is another small tape format. 
Hi-S cameras, correspondingly, tend 
to be very small and light. While they 
are not compatible at all with VHS, 
they have a slight edge in the ability 
to record audio and a slightly better 
picture. 



What features should you look for in 
a camcorder destined to take center 
stage in a video studio? Because il will 
be vour onlv video recorder, vou will 
need to be able to use il lor editing. 
This means thai it should have living 
erase heads and the ability to do both 
video and audio inserts. You might also 
consider a video digital freeze; this will 
prove very important if you want to 
digitize video images using Digital 
Creations' DCTV. 

You Can Make It Happen 

Producing a video using onlv a cam- 
corder requires much planning. Lack- 
ing the ability to edit from one deck to 
another, it is best to shoot everything 
in sequence. If you must shoot out of 
sequence, figure out the precise length 
of the sequence you will have to leave 
room for between vour other shots. 
Then record with the lens cap on lor 
exactly thai amount of time at the 
place vou will enter it on lape (vou 
cannot do a video insert on unrecorded 
tape): Using the video-insert capability, 
set the starting and ending points lor 
the camcorder. Press the button and 
the camera will start recording at pre- 
cisely the right spot, and then automat- 
ically stop recording when it reaches 
the end of the section you have set up, 
making for a seamless insertion. 
You can use the same technique lor *- 



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inserting Amiga-generated titles or 
images. Figure out ahead of time how 
long you want the computer graphic to 
appear on the screen, and record black 
(with the lens cap on) for thai amount 
of time. It is then a simple matter to 
insert the graphic right where you want 
it between your video segments. 

With an audio-dubbing capability, 
you can then go back and acid music to 
jour Amiga graphics — and to any part 
of the video. You can even redub voices 
if there is background noise when 
someone is talking. Before fiddling 
with the audio, though, U is a good 
idea to make a backup of the sound- 
track onto an audio cassette. That way 
if you make a mistake you can always 
restore the original audio. 

With only one recording device, you 
cannot genlock your graphics over live 
video. But don't think that hinders 
your ability to convert graphics from 
RGB to video. All you need to accom- 
plish this is an encoder. Preferred 
Technologies makes a very good one 
called YIP that has both S and compos- 
ite out for around SI 00. 

With DCTV and a camcorder with a 
digital still you can even create an 
effect very similar to genlocking. At the 
end of a video sequence, use the cam- 
era's digital-still feature to freeze the 
last frame, then digitize this image 
using DCTV. With DCTV Paint, add 
titling over the image and start record- 
ing from the same point on the tape. 
The appearance of the text will mask 
the slight difference between the video 
and the DCTV image. 

Although a camcorder-only setup 
does not lend itself to the same A/B- 
roll transitions you can do with New- 
Tek's Video Toaster, you can simulate 
them with careful planning. When you 
want a transition between two video 
sequences, make sure thai the end of 
ihe first and the beginning of the sec- 
ond shots show no movement, and 
leave enough space for the transition. 
You will have to figure out how long 
your transition will be ahead of time. If 
you want a five-second transition at 15 
frames per second, then you will need 
a 125-frame animation. Time your 
animation and your insertion space 
very carefully before actually adding 
the insert. But don't plan your insert 
down to the second; give yourself a 
litde extra room on the tape in case 



you make a small error in timing. 

You can create just about any type of 
transition. By putting the second im- 
age on the swap screen, you can rub 
through to it or make some kind of 
enlarging pattern to reveal it. Save 
each frame with a name and sequential 
number as you go: when you finish you 
can load the frames into DeluxePaint 
or any Anim compiler. 



You can gel a lol 
done with only a 

single camcorder... 

you just need lo plan 

your production 

carefully. 



Using image-processing software you 
can create even more interesting ef- 
fects. Programs like ASDG's Art De- 
partment Professional 2 let you com- 
posite two images with different levels 
of transparency. By decreasing the 
density of the incoming (second) image 
in equal increments from full trans- 
parency to complete opacity over a 
number of frames, you can create a 
very effective dissolve. With software 
that provides morplnng capabilities, 
you can transform one image into 
another. Most programs that offer 
morphing also provide other special- 
effects capabilities; inserting these 
animations using DCTV can create 
some very interesting effects. 

It is important to master these tech- 
niques before shooting your video. 
This will give you the expertise to know 
how long to record blank spaces and 
how to time out transitions. Go out and 
shoot some video that you can practice 
with, and try different transitions and 
effects. 

Souping Up 

When you're ready to add to your 
camcorder-centered setup, take a look 
at some of the peripherals designed 
just for cameras. One of the more 
exciting new products, designed for 
cameras weighing under four pounds, 
is the Steadicam Jr. (S595, Cinema 



Products). It is a downsized version of 
the regular Steadicam used for steady- 
ing motion-picture and professional- 
video cameras. When a television or 
movie scene follows a person walking 
up the stairs or running through a 
twisting trait, chances arc a Steadicam 
was used to give a smooth feel to the 
motion. While not as sophisticated as 
the 530,000 models, Steadicam Jr. 
allows you to do very smooth fluid 
pans, booms, lilts, and dollies. You 
hold it in your hands and use your 
arms as the boom, with the Steadicam 
keeping the picture stable for you. It 
takes some effort lo get the knack, but 
once you have it you will never be tied 
to a tripod again — and you'll be able to 
capture moving camera shots that 
would have been impossible otherwise. 

Another new device that offers some 
tantalizing possibilities is CaineraMan 
(Parkci Vision). Once you attach your 
camcorder to a CameraMan unit, it lets 
you automate panning and lilting. 
Using a special wireless microphone 
that also serves as a tracking unit, the 
camera will automatically follow you. 
An optional hand-held microphone 
also does autotracking, and gives you 
control over zoom, record, and pause 
functions. 

Both the XL ($2095) and the UVM 
($1495) units are controlled through 
infrared. This means that if vou use an 
infrared sender that is controllable 
through the Amiga, such as Interactive 
MicroSystem's $50 unit, along with the 
company's control software, you could 
set up predefined camera movements 
and repeat them, triggering them from 
the Amiga. This opens up tantalizing 
possibilities for motion control and 
other applications. The more expen- 
sive XI. version supports a heavier 
camera up to 15 pounds and has a 
direct interface to ihe Video Toaster. 

Such camcorder add-ons make your 
life easier and snazzier, but so do most 
video peripherals. Remember, you can 
get a lot done with just a single cam- 
corder; you jusl need to invest some 
time. As your expertise and budget 
grow, you can add more. ■ 

Geoffrey Williams is executive producer of 
CBC Communication ami director awl 
newsletter editor for the Amiga I iiletiGmph- 
ics Guild. Write to him c/o AmigaWorld 
Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 
03458. 



64 February 1993 



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6677 
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4052 

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4007 


CYCLEMAN FOR IMAGINE 39 95 


4315 


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4208 


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4556 PLAVMATIOV 279.00 

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3203 HEAL 3D VI 4 1 M OO 

3332 SCULPT ANIMATE 4-0 29900 

4199 VIRTUAL REALITY STUDIO 64 65 

DESKTOP VIDEO 

1805 BROADCAST TlTLEfl II . 239.00 

4250 BROADCAST TJTLEfl II 

SUPEH HIGH RES VERSION 279 00 

4471 BROADCAST TlTL^R II 

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The Kitchen 
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SupraRam RX 
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From p. 26. 

combine a fax and a voice message in a 
single file. You can later view the fax di- 
rectly or convert it into an IFF file; both 
very fast processes. A new addition to the 
program, which should now be available, 
is the ability to automatically forward fax 
and voice messages to a remote number. 

Dial Direct 

On the out-going side, l he program in- 
cludes a database for organizing names, 
addresses, and phone numbers, with au- 
lodial and a redial queue. In the Quick- 
dial screen, you can specify a list of 36 
frequently called numbers for one-click 
dialing. Databases can be password pro- 
tected, and you can index anv field. 

You can send faxes in several ways. 
You could convert an ASCII file to a fax, 
but would lose such formatting as bold- 
face and underlining. Pictures convert 
to faxes more easily. The best way to go, 
however, is to use the Print-to-Fax op- 
tion: Change vour Preferences printer 
dri\er to the provided Fax printer driv- 
er. Now you can use any program for 
sending — a word processor, a desktop- 
publishing program, or even Deluxe- 
Paint (Electronic Arts). Print from them 
as you normally would, and a requester 
pops up asking to which mailbox you 
want the fax saved. The scheduler then 
pops up, letting you specify when to 
send the fax. You can send a fax or a 
voice message to several numbers or a 
single number. 

There are a few things that I would like 
to see PhonePak do differently. Like many 
people, I have two lines running though 
a single phone cable to my two-line tele- 
phone, and PhonePak does not pass 
through the second line (a problem with 
many phone-related peripherals). Also, 
when sending (axes, I often wish Phone- 
Pak olfered a customizable cover sheet 
that automatically inserted the time, date, 
and the names of the sender and recipi- 
ent. The Line Manager, a small utility that 
must be run for PhonePak to answer die 
phone, should have a customizable win- 
dow with the names of mailboxes you 
want to monitor for messages. These 
names should be checked when a new- 
message has come in, so you don't have 
to run the PhonePak software to check for 
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messages. 

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Final Copy II 

Softwood, S99.95 

Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
2.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 1MB of RAM. 
Recommended system: 2MB of 
RAM, hard drive. 



General word processing and 
small-scale desktop publishing. 



Improving on an already popular word 
pnxressor, Final Copy II is loaded with 
new and unusual features. All of its orig- 
inal amenities are still present, including 
a spilly Workbench 2.0 interface, crisp 
output using outline fonts, robust support 
for IFF graphics, and a lucid manual. Fi- 
nal Copy II adds paragraph style sheets, 
master pages, a suite of object-oriented 
drawing tools, a 1.4-million word the- 
saurus, support for 24-bit IFF files, and a 
plethora of other enhancements. 

Style Setter 

Accessing all of Final Copy IPs new fea- 
tures is simplified by several interface en- 
hancements. ARexx and the Amiga clip- 
board device are fully supported, and an 
attractive button bar at the top of the 
screen allows instant access to commonly 
used functions. On this strip are buttons 
for toggling line spacing, paragraph jus- 
tification, tabs, hyphenation preferences, 
and master-page selection. Final Copy IPs 
master pages should be old hat to veteran 
desktop publishers. With this feature, you 
can create a set of guidelines — much like 
a template — to which all the pages in your 
document conform. The text and graph- 
ics placed on a master page appear on ev- 
en' page in your document, perfect if 
vou'd like to add a graphic border to each 
page in a newsletter or brochure. Master 
pages work well for books and small desk- 




Final Copy II lets you tailor your text 
around graphics. 



top-publishing projects, where stylistic 
cues such as page accents (lines ancl shad- 
ed areas) are repeated on each page. 

On a related note, Final Copy IPs style 
sheets do for body text what master 
pages do for the page itself. Style sheets 
act somewhat like document-wide 
macros, adjusting and formatting your 
text according to a predefined set of 
user-specified guidelines. For example, 
using a style sheet, you can tell Final 
Copy II to format the body text in your 
document in a 10-point serif font, with 
headlines of a size 18 font and subheads 
weighing in at 14 points. Instead of man- 
ually editing each page, you can have the 
style sheet do it automatically. Final Copy 
II supports up to 16 named style sheets 
that can be saved and applied to other 
documents. Master pages and style 
sheets make the often arduous task of 
manipulating large documents a snap. 

Once the underlying structure of your 
document is taken care of, Final Copv 11 
offers a number of tools to help you fine- 
tune your prose. A 144,000-word spel- 
ling dictionary is included, as is a hefty 
1.4-million-word thesaurus and a use- 
ful — albeit limited — document-statistics 
option. The dictionary supports user-en- 
tered words, and the thesaurus suggests 
alternative word choices at a mouse click. 
Unfortunately, the thesaurus offers only 
two options: find and replace. Being able 
to selectively look for synonyms or 
antonvms alone would cut down on time 
spent on searching for unneeded words. 

To Illustrate a Point 

In the graphics department. Final Copy II 
now supports color text. A new oblique- 
percentage feature also lets you slant text 
to the left or right, ideal for special text ef- 
fects. IFF pictures of all stripes are sup- 
ported, ranging from lowly two-color im- 
ages to palette-bursting 24-bit creations. 
Regardless of the pixel depth of the 
graphics, Final Copy II easily scales, crops, 
ancl resizes loaded images with real-time 
text flow around each graphic. If you need 
only a line or shaded box to spruce up 
your document, Final Copy Il'sstruciured- 
drawing tools allow you to create filled and 
unfilled lines, boxes, and ovals. 

Printing your document is where Final 
Copy II truly excels. 'Hie program relies 
entirely upon a proprietary outline-font 
format for output, resulting in crisp, read- 
able text that can be printed at the max- 
imum resolution of the output device. 
Unfortunately, Final Copy II does not 
support standard Amiga fonts; if you want 
additional fonts, you must purchase Soli- 
wood's. The 1 1 fonts that are included 
with Final Copy II are suitable for most 
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printing options. 

Getting Final Copy II onto a hard 
drive is easy, thanks to a slick, icon-driv- 
en installation routine. Amiga owners 
with a scarcity of hard-drive real estate 
should know that Final Copy II occupies 
a lad under 2.8 megabytes of space when 
installed. Workbench 1.3 and higher are 
supported, although Final Copy II was 
certainly designed with 2.0 in mind. 

As impressive as Final Copy II is, some 
weaknesses are apparent. The lack of 
Amiga font support is a notable — al- 
though uoi crippling — foible, and the 
slow typing speed in large documents 
may deter some last typists. Some of the 
features thai are de rigueur in many other 
word processors — timed document 
saves, user-selectable dclault document 
paths — are conspicuous by their absence. 

Minor lanlts aside. Final Copv II is a su- 
perlative piece of work; Softwood has in- 
deed created a winner Supporting fea- 
tures often found only in expensive 
desktop-publishing programs, Final Copy 
II does have some serious competition; 
New Horizon's PnoWrite 3.3 and Micro- 
System Software's excellence! 3.0 are very 
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G-Lock 

Great Valley Products, S495. 

All Amiga models. 

External, RGB and joystick port 

connections. 
Installation: Easy. 
Graphics overlay and video-format 

conversion. 



Graphics overlay and 
video-format conversion. 



Genlocks, encoders, and iranscoders 
have been common equipment in 
Amiga video studios for quite some time. 
So, is the brand-new G-Lock new tech- 
nology or jusi another genlock choice? 
First some background: Basically, 
video equipment and computers all use 
specific types of signals to display pic- 
tures. Computer signals are generally 
RGB format, while video can be compos- 
ite. Y/C (Hi-8 and S-VHS), or YUV, 
among others. Different video standards. 
NTSC. PAL. and SECAM add more 
complications. Basic encoders convert a 
computer's RGB signal into a specific 



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To control the G-Lock use the button 
panels shown, hot keys, or ARexx. 

video formal. Genlocks encode an RCB 
signal, mix it with a video signal, and 
output the combination. Transcoders 
convert among multiple signal types and 
typically cost more because of extra cir- 
cuiliy, inputs, and output. The G-Lock 
incorporates new integrated circuits and 
provides all three abilities in one device 
and adds simple audio mixing. 

Installation of the six-by-four-by-one- 
inch black G-Lock box takes only a few- 
minutes. The supplied six-inch cable 
connects your Amiga's KGB port to the 
G-Lock, while a fixed cable plugs into 
your joystick port. Hook your monitor ca- 
ble lo the other end ol the G-Lock, and 
you're done. You have a choice of either 
two composite-video inputs or one Y/C 
(S-VHS or Hi-8) with one composite, Y/C, 
or YUV output. You can simultaneously 
output either of two monaural audio in- 
puts. All composite video and audio con- 
nectors are RCA type, while Y/C video 
plugs are the standard four-pin inini- 
DIN. In a standard configuration, video 
output is always available on each of the 
RGB. composite, and Y/C connectors. 
The YUV output is accessible only with 
a break-out cable (not supplied) in place 
of the RGB output and without any of 
the other video outputs available. 

G-Lock operation is handled through 
software interface panels, hot keys, or 
ARexx. While the Video and Audio con- 
trol panels are available with a Standard 
installation, you must change your 
Tool Types to reach the other four Ad- 
vanced-Video control panels. The -LEGS 
Control Panel is accessible only if your 
Amiga has the ECS or AGA chip sets. 
The G-Lock software also lets you save 
and instantly switch among up to three 
sets of set-up parameters, meaning you 
can save and use color-correction (en- 



hancement) settings and so on that are 
specific for a production. 

Two for One 

Both genlock and transcoder functions 
are handled by settings within the G- 
I.ock. You can select a standard Amiga im- 
age onlv. an overlay ol Amiga graphics on 
external video, external video only, or ex- 
terna! video inside an Amiga graphic key. 
G-Lock doesn't stop here; it adds extra 
features. A full-featured proc amp pro- 
vides control over brightness, contrast, 
hue, and saturation values, as well as 
many other fine video-signal adjustments, 
The G-Lock also includes an electronic 
color splitter for slow-scan digitizers, such 
as NewTek's Digi-View. A supplied ARexx 
script assists in automating this process. 

GYP also includes an ARexx script to 
provide "transition effects between two 
composite-video sources (A/B roll)." This 
sounds great but is very questionable. 
'Hie script uses the brightness and con- 
trast of the proc amp to fade out one 
video source and then fade in the second. 
First, A/B roll alludes to a cut ability, not 
a fade to black; second the documenta- 
tion never mentions that to switch 
smoothly between multiple video 
sources, you must have time-base-cor- 
rected (synced) video sources. 

G-Lock contains three major unique 
features. First, by virtue of its transcoding 
ability, the G-Lock allows you to convert 
from a composite-video signal into either 
a separated Y/C or YUV signal- Second, 
it can work with Amiga de-inteilacers so 
that you don't have to disable them for 
your standard Amiga output. Finally, with 
the special keying abilities, both standard 
bitplane and chroma keying are available 
to ECS- or AGA-equipped Amigas. 

The built-in keying abilities alone 
make the G-Lock cost effective. A stan- 
dard Amiga genlock drops out Color 
Zero and replaces this area with the ex- 
ternal video. When inverse keying is 
available, Color Zero appears while all 
other colors drop out to externa! video. 
The G-Lock software lets you select be- 
tween either bitplane or chroma keying. 
Bitplane selections of through 5 (ECS) 
or through 7 (AGA) are controllable. 
Chroma-kev values ol up to 32 (ECS) or 
256 (AGA) colors are valid, letting you 
acheive very convincing effects. 

While I found the audio control very 
limited, it proved convenient for a simple 
video-mixing situation. You can switch 
from either of the mono audio inputs or 
mix the two channels (same level) into 
one mono output, GVP suggests that if 
you have stereo audio sources, you should 
use a simple Y-cable to combine them. 



76 February 1993 



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R i; V I E w s 

Screen Test 

Enough of the features, what are the results 
with regard to the quality of the output? 
Th<_- answer is mixed. When viewed on vec- 
torscope and waveform monitor, the facto- 
ry settings were without question otitside 
broadcast specifications. "Hie documenta- 
tion includes a calibration procedure that 
refers to both software and hardware ad- 
justments, which ellectively produces a 
much better signal. The disclaimer that 
GVP is not responsible for and will not as- 
sist in the recalibration, however; concerns 
me. Additionally, opening the G-Lock 
voids the warranty. This presents a 
quandry, unless you are not concerned 
with the quality oi the output signal. 

The last caveat is the YL'V-output abil- 
ity. In this price range, the ability to pro- 
duce high-quality component video is a 
major breakthrough. The suggestions in 
the documentation are questionable with 
regard to output to Beta-Cam SP video 
components. The technicians I consult- 
ed did not believe that using the external 
sync signal would work properly, because 
the SP machine expected the sync signal 
with the Y signal, A possible solution, 
which I did not have time prior to pub- 
lication to try, could be a custom cable. 

Overall, I was impressed with the G- 
Lock's versatility. I was also impressed 
with the ability to control the device with 
hot keys and ARexx. The software gives 
you a great deal of control over the device 
for line tuning the quality of the signal. 
The ability to save set-up configurations 
also gives you interesting video-process- 
ing capabilities. 'Hie G-L.ock is a versatile 
and capable device, but I suggest you 
leave the fine timing to a video technician. 
— Steven Blaize 



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uct that keeps improving. This is the case 
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upgrades. 

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allow real-time 24-bit animation. With 
these utilities you can convert your im- 
ages generated with 3-D software, For ex- 
ample, into 24-bit animations that play 
back at up to '50 frames per second (fps) 
through the OpalVision display. 

Two on the Move 

A stand-alone program, MakeAnim 24 
automatically converts and scales a series 
of 24-bit IFF images to the new OpalVi- 
sion animation format. This is not a 
highly compressed format., which con- 
tributes to faster playback at the expense 
of bigger files. (If you are working with 
24-bit images, however, you probably 
have a big hard disk anyway.) 

Using MakeAnim 24 is very easy. You 
simply select the first and the last of a 
series of images, the color depth (from 
eight to 24 bits), the image size, and 
whether to use compression or not. The 
program does the rest. 

PlayAnim 24 loads and plays anima- 
tions very quickly, Full-si^e, overscan 24- 
bit animations cannot play back in real 
time, but if vou need to view your anima- 
tions at 80 fps, you can render them at a 
smaller size or use fewer bitplanes. Play- 
back is very smooth, and an option tells 
you the speed. If you don't have a lot of 
memory, PlayAnim 24 can play anima- 
tions directly from disk at the expense of 
some speed. 

My favorite aspect of OpalVision's ani- 
mation capabilities is that yon can pre- 
view your work before single-frame 
recording it to tape. This is extremely 
useful if you don't own a single-frame 
recorder, allowing you to preview your 
finished animations before you go to a 
service bureau or to record them to tape 
in real time for client approval. This 
alone saves you time and money. 

Alpha Painting 

OpalPaint has also received many new 
additions. ARexx is now fully supported, 
with loads of commands. By writing your 
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create images from formulas. The possi- 
bilities are very nice. The Magic Wand is 
still not supported, but Alpha Painting is, 
allowing the creation of transparencies 
and, with the forthcoming switcher, mul- 
tiple layers. There is also a new back- 
ground fixing feature that allows you to 
paint over a background without ruining 
it. Holding down the All key while mov- 
ing your cursor over an image gives you 




OpalVision's PlayAnim 24 displays 24-bit 
animations to your specifications. 

the HSV values of the pixels underneath, 
which is very helpful in defining toler- 
ances for cuts and fills. With automatic 
brush picking, you can pick a brush of 
any format without the background, if 
the latter is composed of a single color. 
For gradient fans, eight editable gradi- 
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one. The new splatter brush and a cus- 
tom paper allows you to use any image 
as the paper texture. Therefore, you can 
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Speed has been cranked up, as well. 
Loading JPEG images now takes a fraction 
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the ZAP tool is 2009. to 300% Taster than 
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The included Show24 not only lets 
you display 24-bit IFF files, but also 
JPEG compressed images and normal 
.Amiga IFFs of up to 256 colors. This al- 
lows Amiga 2000 and A3000 users to 
view images created on the A4000. 

OpalVision 1.1 software now comes in 
ten floppies, and an improved installa- 
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are posted frequently and can be easily 
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In addition, an ever increasing list of pro- 
grams offers direct support for OpalVi- 
sion. Aladdin 41) (Adspec Programming). 
for example, renders its 3-D objects to the 
OpalVision display. Included with OpalVi- 
sion 1.1 are a loader and an operator for 
Art Department Professional and Morph- 
Plus, ASDG's excellent image-manipula- 
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new hardware add-ons. IF they perform 
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Toaster. Not only are support for Y/C, 
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TechnoSound 
Turbo v2.7 

Griffin Systems, 599.99. 

All Amiga models. 
External, parallel-port connection. 
Installation: Easy. 
Hard-drive installable software. 
Not copy protected. 
Not 2,0 compatible. 
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Recommended system: 1 MB + of RAM, 
hard drive. 



Eight-bit sampling and editing. 



TechnoSound Turbo is yet another 
eight-hit sampler From the European 
Amiga community. While it shares many 
features and much of the look oFthis au- 
dio wave lapping our shores, it does pre- 
sent a Few twists of its own. 

A hardware/software combination, 
TechnoSound Turbo comes with both 
an audio sampler and editing software 
to manipulate your samples. The sam- 
pling cartridge is about the size of a 
pack of cigarettes, plugs into the paral- 
lel port, and has two RCA phono jacks 
for connecting to your stereo system or 
other sound source. The package also 
comes with a cable that links the car- 
tridge directly to the headphone jack oF 
a Walkman-type device. You'll need an 
adapter, however, to use a microphone. 
There is no pass through, so you'll be 
swapping cables to use your printer. 



The screen is laid out in a manner 
similar to most sample editors. The top 
half of the screen represents the wave- 
Form, while the bottom half displays 
twin oscilloscopes and an array of but- 
tons that control recording, editing, and 
effects-processing Features. The buttons 
on the left handle such functions as 
recording, playback, and zooming in on 
the waveform, while the buttons on the 
right bring up submenus For editing, 
disk access, and the like. 

Cool Special FX 

TechnoSound Turbo sparkles when it 
comes to the special effects and the loop 
functions, in particular. As with most 
sample editors, TechnoSound Turbo 
lets you process previously recorded 
samples through a variety of echo and 
reverb effects, in addition to adding 
real-time effects to your sample as it is 
recorded. Real Time Edit puts your 
sample into an infinite loop, letting you 
adjust it on the fly. (You'll be able to 
spook the neighbor's cat by processing 
your voice through the Voice Synthesis 
and Dalek synth effects.) 

Editing Features can also create un- 
usual effects. Use the Mix to create r-r- 
rap stutters, or flip any portion of the 
sample around with Hip. User Echo lets 
you define your own echo parameters, 
setting the delays and relative volume 
levels for each of the four Amiga audio 
channels. You'll have all the control you 
want over your samples with Techno- 
Sound Turbo. 

You can link your samples into songs, 
using TechnoSound Turbo's Song Se- 
quencer. The process is similar to link- 
ing verse and chorus sections in a MIDI 
sequencer to compile a song. While not 
meant to compete with music-creation 
software, the Song Sequencer can pro- 
duce a nice string of special effects or 
even a looping music-and-sound-effecis 
bed For a title screen or short anima- 
tion. The MIDI Sequencer Feature al- 
lows you to trigger samples From a 
MIDI keyboard or from your Amiga 
keyboard. Unfortunately, f have not 
been able to get this feature to function 
on TechnoSound Turbo or any of the 
other European sampler editors I've 
looked at, either from a MIDI keyboard 
or from the Amiga keyboard. 

Hammer Time 

There is much to like in TechnoSound 
Turbo. It performs basic editing and 
recording Functions adequately without 
a lot oF hassle. As with all things, how- 
ever, it could stand a bit of polishing 
and refinement. TechnoSound 'Turbo 
gave mv A3000 all sorts of trouble. As a 



matter oF Fact, version 2.7 of the pro- 
gram didn't want to Function under 
2.04 at all, although it performed just 
fine on both my .ViOOO and A500 under 
1.3. Oddly, the demo version I received 
did work under 2.04. 

Pointer positioning could be im- 
proved, as well, and the scrolling bar 
didn't always display. Hoi It pointers 
were offset to the right by about an inch 
under 2.04 on my A3O0O. All scrolling 
controls could use a fine-tuning option. 
Every arrow or button used for chang- 
ing pointer locations, sample rate, and 
so on scurried so quickly that it was 
rather difficult to make a selection with 
any degree of accuracy. 

TechnoSound Turbo hogs the system 
resources and multitasks grudgingly at 
best. You must manually type in your 
path if your program and files are not 
on floppies or in your dhO: partition. 
The requester windows are similar to 
those in other European samplers, and 
hence are nonstandard by domestic 




Link your samples into songs with 
TechnoSound Turbo's Song Sequencer. 

reckoning, and take a bit of getting used 
to. You can onlv quit the program from 
the disk submenu. 

As with many sampling products, 
TechnoSound Turbo could use an Undo 
button. If you process your sample 
through an effect and are unhappy with 
the results, you must reload the sample 
from disk, [fyou didn't save your sam- 
ple to disk first, well, you'll have to start 
all over. 

If you want to clip your toe into audio 
sampling. "TechnoSound Turbo is a rea- 
sonable starling point. The editing, 
looping, and effects are first rale, and 
the pricing and interface put il in the 
hunt for your sampling dollars. Even 
though there isn't enough in Techno- 
Sound Turbo to place it unquestionably 
above all other similar products, it cer- 
tainly oilers enough to be worthy of your 
serious consideration. 

— Rick Manasa 



82 February 1993 



REVIEWS 



MorphPlus 

ASDG, $295. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
2.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: AmigaDOS 2.0, 

4MB of RAM. 
Recommended system: 2.0, 8MB of 

RAM, hard drive, accelerator. 



Special effects, image processing 
and animation 



The best wave to come along in several 
years For animators and graphics 
professionals is the morph. Transform- 
ing people to animals, animals to ma- 
chines, and machines to people is big 
business in the video world. Unfortu- 
nately, the price of the required software 
has been equally big, too . . . until now. 
For $295, MorphPlus gives you morph- 
ing and more — perspective transforma- 
tions, perfect rotations, rippling 
bitmaps, and other wild pixel twisters 
thai make producing jaw-dropping ef- 
fects easy. 

MorphPlus is not one program, but 
three separate ones. The first is Morph, 
where you set up the actual animated 
sequence. The main program, Morph- 
Plus, renders the sequence from 
Morph's parameters. Finally, FRED 
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tions. MorphPlus runs on its own, but 
both FRED and Morph require that 
MorphPlus run in the background at 
the same lime. The look and feel of the 
main interface is similar to ASDG's Art 
Department Professional, with 3-D-style 




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feedback on a job's progress. 

Head to Head, Face to Face 

Morphing is a complex process, but 
MorphPlus makes it easy. After starting 
MorphPlus and Morph, you open a new 
project and specify- the source (morph 
from) and destination (morph to) im- 
ages. Central to the main Morph screen 
is a large image area where the source 
and destination images are shown as 
gray-scale pictures superimposed on 
each other. The effect is similar to that 



of an onion skin or light table, where 
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have total control over the amount of 
transparency, brightness, and contrast 
of each image. If a picture detail is 
tough to distinguish at first, you can 
usually make it stand out clearly by ad- 
justing the contrast sliders. 

'I wo simultaneous ellects combine to 
make a successful morph. The first is a 
cross dissolve in which the source picture 
fades out as the destination picture fades 
in. In the second, more crucial aspect, 
parts of the source picture move to match ' 



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the location of corresponding parts in the 
destination picture. MorphPlus gives you 
superb control over both facets. 

The most time-consuming portion of 
creating a morph is getting alt those parts 
from one area to another and defining 
the motion paths. Consider morphing 
one face into another. The outside of the 
head, eyes, nose, and mouth must be an- 
imated over the duration of the morph. 
For a more detailed look, you can move 
the top and bottom of lips, eyebrows, eye- 
lids, hairlines, and other features over 
time. This easily adds up to quite a task. 
MorphPlus attempts to make this difficult 
process easy, and includes an arsenal of 
tools to help with the animation. 

You define the animated portion of die 
move with a series ol lines, called vectors. 
They contain the start point, direction, and 
end point of the move. Vectors can ani- 
mate in any direction and can be grouped 
and named for easy access. If the work area 
gets crowded, you can turn groups off and 
on. You can also ait, copy, paste, erase, and 
Hip [hem. For example, you could animate 
a face's left eye group, then copy and flip 
it over for use as the right eye. 

The vectors move and push the image 
along with it from the beginning position 
to the final position. Each vector can even 
move at a different speed, if you tike. For 
example, the eye vectors could change 
quickly, while the mouth vectors move 
slowly. You can modify vector speed on a 
graph and set the location for each frame, 
or you can define the speed on a user-de- 
signed straight or spline path. 

If you think all this sounds cumber- 
some, you're right; it can be. Lots of files 
are generated during the creation of the 
morph. Luckily, MoiphPlus keeps track of 
all the housekeeping through the use of 
projects. A project contains all the vectors, 
pictures, and other elements that Morph- 
Plus needs to perform the morph. You 
concentrate on the anima-tion; Morph- 
Plus handles the files. Even better, Mor- 
phPlus is completely configurable, so cre- 
ating a custom environment is a snap. 

Shout About Twists 

If morphing isn't your style, MorphPlus 
is still worth having for all the other 
clever tricks it can perform. Pictures can 
bewarped, wrapped on spheres, moved 
in perspective, twirled, and rippled. 
Even better, you can animate any of 
tfiese effects. 

For example, the ripple effect is par- 
ticularly interesting. Imagine having a 
picture made of water into which a stone 
is dropped, creating waves that emanate 
from the impact point. The ripple effect 
emulates this and more. You can specify 
multiple waves coining from different 



points (even off the picture's side). The 
waves can collide with each other and set 
up new wavelets. You have complete con- 
trol over the number of waves, starling 
points, wave heights, speed, and dura- 
tion. Waves can increase, decrease, or 
stay constant over time. 

In the fine ASDG fashion, the manual 
is excellent, The tutorials are easy and 
fun, helping you along the learning 
curve very quickly. Every function's key- 
board equivalent is discussed, as is the 
ARexx port. 

There are a couple of gotchas. Morph- 
Plus needs 10 have plenty of memory in 
big contiguous blocks, especially when 
working with 24-bit images. The onion- 
skin view works fine, but seeing both pic- 
tures side by side would save lots of slid- 
ing back and forth through transparency 
levels. 

Staying Power 

Despite these minor points, MorphPlus 
is an excellent package. It has a huge 
range of capabilities- — much more than 
just morphing, The other tools are just 
as impressive and lots of fun to play 
with. Even if the morph craze fades 
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le new markets with MorphPlus. 

— Derek Grime 



Touchdown 100 

New Horizons, S650 



A2000, A3000. 

External, SCSI connection. 

Installation: Easy 



250-megabyte SCSI streaming-tape 
drive for hard-drive backup. 



Thanks to the ever increasing size of 
Amiga graphic and animation files, 
large hard drives — some of them weigh- 
ing in at more than 1 20 megabytes — are 
becoming less of a luxury and more of 
a necessity for professional Amiga users. 
While jumbo hard drives can solve large 
data-storage problems, they can simul- 
taneously turn the often tedious task of 
backing up data into a painfully time- 
consuming ordeal. 

A 40MB hard drive can be backed up 
in less than an hour; a 300MB drive 
inav lake an entire afternoon. There- 
lore, understandably, an increasing 
number of Amiga users are dumping 
their floppies and moving to more ef- 
fective solutions for hard-drive backups. 
One of the mosi popular alternatives to 
a slack of (loppy drives is to use a tape 
drive, such as New Horizons' new 



Touchdown 100 ($650), a 250-meg 
SCSI streaming-tape drive. 

Easy Addition 

The Touchdown 100 is an external unit, 
about the size and weight of two stacked 
textbooks (9x10x3 inches). A 12-page 
manual, a power cord, and a 25-pin to 50- 
pin SCSI cable complete the package con- 
tents. Strangely, the drive doesn't ship 
with a blank data cartridge; you musi pur- 
chase it separately. Because the Touch- 
down 100 is compatible with two of the 
most popular - quarter-inch tape-cartridge 
formats— DC-fi 150 and DC-6250— find- 
ing blanks should noi be a problem. I 
managed to locate a 150MB DC-fi 150 
cartridge at a local office-supply store for 
around S25; the larger 250MB' DC-6250 
models run about S30. 

Because the 'touchdown 100 is a SCSI 
device, connecting it to an Amiga 
equipped with a SCSI interface is a 
plug-and-play operation. Touchdown 
100 is a "terminated" SCSI device, 
meaning that it must be situated at the 
end of a chain of SCSI devices. If you 
have any other peripherals — such its an 
external hard drive or CD-ROM de- 
vice — you'll need to connect ihcm be- 
tween the Touchdown 100 and your 
Amiga's SCSI interface. 

Installing the Touchdown 100 isn't 
difficult; after plugging the SCSI cable 
into your Amiga's SCSI port, connecting 
the power cable, and inserting a blank 
cartridge, you're ready to begin backing 
up your hard drive with your favorite 
software. The lape drive is covered by a 
90-day warranty should disaster strike. 
New Horizons' telephone support is ex- 
cellent, although a technical-support 
number is noticeably absent from the 
installation instructions. (If vou need it, 
it's 512/328-6650.) 

Stuck on Tape 

So how well does the Touchdown 100 
work? Over a period of several weeks 1 
performed a number of backups and re- 
stores teaming the Touchdown 100 with 
a variety of Amiga hard-drive back-up 
utilities. Using New Horizons" own back- 
up utility — QuarterBack 5.0 — it took a 
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All advertising is .subject to the approval of the Publisher and AmigoUhrid reserves the right to refuse adver- 
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Lure of the Temptress 

By Peter Olafson 

BY NOW, MOST of you will have heard that Sierra has aban- 
doned the Amiga market — at least for the time being — leaving 
incomplete the conversion of EcoQuest and 32-color versions 
of ft>lice Quest and Quest for Glory. "Hie company cited poor 
reception for its games. Small surprise: They began to pay heed 
to the state of the art in Amiga adventures only toward the end. 

That standard is high and getting higher. The animated ad- 
venture is in the throes of a renaissance, and Sierra's absence 
is likely only to raise the industry's batting average. An Amiga 
version of Virgin's gorgeous Legend of Kyrandia is just out as 
I write this. LucasArts' Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 
and Core Design's Curse of Enchantia and Darkmere are 
around the corner. Right now we have Lure of the Temptress 
(Konami, S49.95), which, I'm happy to report, is an absolutely 
splendid example of the craft. 

It's from an outfit called Revolution Software from Eng- 
land — where Lure was originally published by Virgin — that is 
practicing a pleasant form of magic called Virtual Theater. The 
premise: A character isn't simply a sprite that's turned offwhen 
he leaves the room, but a little computer person who exists 
within the game independent of the presence of your charac- 
ter. These nonplayer characters aren't automatons waiting for 
you to interact with them; they have lives, agendas, and sched- 
ules. If a character is not where you are, he can be found some- 
where else. 

The game itself can perhaps be best described as a hybrid 
of a LucasArts adventure — it has the same ease of play, and 




Will the Lure of the Temptress overpower you? 

your character has a friendly trace of Guybrush Threepwood 
about him — and a game from Delphine's Cinemalhit|ue line. 
No icons here, though; if you wain to investigate an object or 
person, you simply click on it and a menu of the relevant ac- 
tions pops up. 

Yes, it's the same old, tired beat-the-evil-wizard stoiy, only 
this time the wizard is an apprentice sorcerer named Selena, 
who's behind an uprising in the community of Turnvale. And 
yes, it's essentially another' Object Quest, although 1 have to 
say that once the game really gets underway, it doesn't feel like 
one. LOTT's dynamic is a curious one; at limes it's pure Mon- 

Contimted on p. 95. 



After two month's worth of cheats, 
I can't resist delaying our adven- 
tures in Ultima VI The False 
Prophet [Origin, S69.95I with just a 
couple more. 

There's an extensive editor built 
into the program— a little Ultima 
construction kit, in some re- 
spects — and with a bit of work it's 
possible to retile the landscape to 
your liking. (Thanks to Anthony W. 
Wilson of Shelton, Washington, for 
his tips.) 

One big fat caveat first: Use this 
cheat at your own risk. If you care 
at all about your progress in the 
game and the integrity of your 
disks, use only backups. I'm not 
clear at all on what some aspects 
do — this cheat cries out for detailed 



CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 



documentation — and correspon- 
dents tell me it's possible to crash 
the program and permanently 
change the shape of Britannia with 
some elements. So watch your 
step, and for heaven's sake, don't 
save afterward, eh? (And if you do, 
please don't tell me about it.) 

You can invoke it anywhere. Sim- 
ply start up a conversation with lolo 
and say spam, spam, spam, hum- 
bug, with a carriage return (but no 
comma) after each word. (Evidently 
the programmer was a Monty 
Python/ A Christmas Carol fan. Or 
maybe he just liked spam,) For each 
spam, he'll tell you to talk to 



Shamino about it^-the typical Ulti- 
ma Vt way Of saying "dunno" — but 
just persevere, and you'll be re- 
warded with a five-item Secret 
Cheaters Menu; Get Items. Set 
Flags, View NPCs, Edit Party and 
Edit Player. You're in. (You can get 
out now by just pressing Return.) 

We'll start at the bottom with 
the cheat to display karma — the 
game's otherwise invisible mea- 
surement of your goody-goodness 
or baditude — that I promised last 
fall. Use Edit Player to see, raise (up 
to around 32,000), or lower your 
current reading and to set a quest 
flag. There are ten flag settings. 



from to 9, and I couldn't tell you 
what any of them mean, except that 
they evidently determine whether 
or not you're on a holy quest. 

Edit Party offers a more tradi- 
tional stat editor. You can increase 
any party member's strength, intel- 
ligence, dexterity (up to the maxi- 
mum of 30). level (up to 252. al- 
though hit points max out at 255), 
and experience (a max of 99990); re- 
store a living character to full 
health, and even get a horse. (It ap- 
pears on the spot) 

View NPCs is essentially a little 
encyclopedia of the 187 nonplayer 
characters in the game. You can 
study their portraits, search for 
who's carrying a particular item, 
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From p. 92. 

key Island, at others it's almost like role playing, and the com- 
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all (it together somehow. 

You're a plain fellow named Diermot who's swept up in die 
king's sortie to put down the revolt, and in the melee that en- 
sues, you're knocked cold only to wake up in a cell. Once 
free — you'll need to create a diversion here — you'll hear a dy- 
ing man's vague reporl of a girl in danger, and it's ofFlo Turn- 
vale proper in search of a blacksmith. 

It's not as large as a Monkey Island II — LO'1'1 comes on just 
lour disks — but it's much deeper than you'd expect, and its 
space is used more intensively. You can give your pal Ratpouch 
complex, multipart instructions. You can peer in windows (for 
instance, lo listen to the murderous imprecations of the guard 
you'll have to trap at the outset)) lalk to lots of people about 
everything under the sun, and light with a few. That takes some 
practice, as the system's a bit arcane. 

LOTT confesses its only venial sins right on the product info 
sticker: hard disk not supported, on-disk copy protection, off- 
disk copy protection. Not taking any chances, eh? These com- 
bine lo make Lure something of an experience in wailing for 
an I/O error, and I wish Konami had done a bit more than con- 
vert the game to \ ISC, recast the manual for LS consump- 
tion, and slap its name on the box. Even Sierra's worst stuff 
went on hard disk, for goodness sake. (It won't run on the 
A -5000, either.) 

Overall, the play's the thing, not the technical specs, and 
on those terms, Lure will do. In fact, it will do just line. Sierra 
who? *" 



CRIB NOTES 



From p. 92. 

and, in theory, be able to see what 
each is carrying, although I couldn't 
get this to work correctly. Finally, 
there's a little item here called Set 
Worktype. Logic suggests this is a 
way to edit NPC jobs, but it also has 
a bit of programmer-ese about it 
and my machine quietly lacked up 
when I tried it on my Avatar, Maybe 
I should have turned lolo into a 
locksmith. 

Set Flags? Lets run it up the flag- 
pole and see if the Amiga crashes. 
Use with caution, I really haven't a 
clue what it does. Flags are typically 
used in adventure games to identify 
for the program whether, for in- 
stance, a given area has a light 
source or a door is open or closed. 
Here, there are eight of them for 
each NPC — set to eithBr or 1. 

Get Item is the neatest one, in a 
sense, because it's an education in 
how the game was created. This al- 
lows you to add to your inventory 
up to 144 of any of the 452 items in 
the game. What, your character 
can't haul 144 chain coifs around? 
The program doesn't care. It gives 
them to you anyway, ya big lug. 
And because these items include 



tiles of scenery, people, and beasts, 
you can deposit them all over in 
place of the existing scenery. Fool 
your friends! Fun at parties! (How- 
ever, it's not a true editor, as the 
program treats them as back- 
ground, and you can't interact with 
them in any way.) The first one I 
picked out was a horse's patootie, 
and I proceeded to decorate every 
available inch of Lord British's 
kitchen with horse patooties. Very 
attractive it was, too. 

Even the intro has a cheat. Try 
pushing the number keys 1 to 7 in 
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They switch channels on the set. 
Not a biggie, but a nice way to see 
all of each commercial, The Avatar 
has the attention span of a three- 
year-old, and is apt to turn 'em off 
before they're over. 

The IBM version has still anoth- 
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been able to find on the Amiga, If 
you push Al t-2, 1, 3, you're rewarded 
with the party's location and other 
info. Drop me a line if you've got this 
one scoped out. 

Next month: Crib Notes goes le- 
git (again) and takes a look at some 
of the darker spots in the game. 
Then we'll move on to Lure ol the 
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By Rob Hays 

IF YOU HAD been in charge of the German defenses on 11- 
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hand at reshaping history in this and 24 other battle scenarios. 
While most war games lock you into either strategic have- 
yoiii-battalions-capture-Poland or tactical drive-your-tank-to- 
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both challenges. The larger scenarios concentrate on the 
strategic aspects of warfare, requiring planning and decisions 




They're cannon fodder in your sights . . . you hope. 

to coordinate movements of large forces. (Should you call in 
air support, or move your artillery up?) 

When you make contact with the enemy, you can take tactical 
command of the forces or allow ihe computer to determine die 
Winner. If you decide to light yourself, von choose which vehicle 
to control and again can allow the compute]' to control various 
aspects of the light- For example, if you are in a tank, you can 
leave the strategy and driving to the computer and concentrate 
on tracking targets and firing the gun, or any combination of 
tiie activities. 

In addition to strategic and tactical concerns, you have to 
think about reinforcements and supplies. Most scenarios in- 
clude factories whose output can he modified to suit your 
needs. Lose a lot of tanks in battle? Switch a factory from truck 
to tank production. But don't let the enemy close your supply 
lines, or those convoys of replacements won't be able to gel to 
the from lines. 

Campaign is almost entirely mouse controlled, the exception 
being ihe keyboard-controlled tactical battle sequences. The 
speed of the game clock can be varied to suit different circum- 
stances. The game can be paused or saved at any time, and 
runs under 2.04 and upon an A3000. You can install it on a 
hard disk, and although there is no script provided, the instruc- 
tions arc plain and simple to type in with the CLI or Shell. In- 
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the existing scenarios to create your own. 

A bound 78-page user guide includes a short history of 
WWII and walks you through a tutorial battle. A 169-page book 
has detailed information on all of the equipment available in 
the game, and is the basis of the copy protection. The protec- 
tion kicks in not only at the start ol a game, but also whenever 
you want to save a game in progress. A nice extra touch is the i 



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THOSE NICK FOLKS in marketing, God love them, are still 
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Harpoon Challenger Pak, Signature Edition (Three-Sixty, 
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look. It's big as a house, it looks nice in festively decorated pa- 
per, it rattles ominously when shaken . . .and if you arc a big 

an of this excellent-if-ponderous wargame, you probably don't 
need it. 

This is the complete Harpoon. It consists of the main pro- 
gram, the original GIL'K battleset, three add-ons (NACV, 
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even semi-new here is version 1.1 of Harpoon itself 1 — said to 
be the final Amiga version — but you can easily obtain that sep- 
arately as an upgrade from Three-Sixty. The embossed signa- 
tures of the designers are not exactly a selling point. 'Hie com- 
pany didn't even put in the Harpoon Battle Book. 

If, on the other hand, you're not a Harpoon addict already, 
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time wargame — but it remains the best tactical-level game of 
modern naval and air combat around: lots of nail-biting real- 
ism, easy-to-master controls, and reams of information on the 
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Combat Classics 

For a season dedicated to peace on earth, goodwill to men, 

and all thai, we're certainly gelling a lot ofwargames. Combat 
Classics (Empire / ReadySoft, 559.95} brings together Electron- 
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sim F-15 Strike Eagle II, Empire's own Team Yankee, and a 
whole familv of spiders. 

Just kidding about the spiders, but only a little. 688 is around 
bur years old. It wasn't bad in its day, but il doesn't support 
modem play. MicmProse's F-15 II took some critical heat for 
being too much of a shoot-'em-up, but it's very speedy and de- 
tailed on a plain-vanilla A500, and I happen to like shooting 
down lots of enemy planes. And Team Yankee is still a tough 
Utile nut of a tank game, with simultaneous views from each 
Of your four units. CC seems a little pricey overall but is a solid 
package. (Nice games, too.) 

Big Box 2 

If you want a really big reissue compilation, you'll have to 
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fewer than ten games: Back to the Future 3, The Real Ghost- 
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G A H E 



PRESERVE 



From p. 98. 

lyte, Defenders of the Earth, Shanghai, Bombuzat, TV Sports 
Football, and International Karate Plus. Jeez Louise. None are 
quite new, but there are a lew classics in (he hunch — Cine- 
maware's Sinbad and Activision's Shanghai in particular — and 
at about S5 a pop, you won't do any better. 

Tengen's Arcade Hits 

By contrast, Tengen's Arcade Hits (Domark, $39.95) sur- 
faced well before Christmas, and it is exactly the kind of com- 
pilation we need: five primo-to-decent European-made arcade 
games — all conversions from Atari arcade machines — from 
the late '80s and early '90s, none of which saw domestic issue. 
We'll take it from the top. Escape from the Planet of Robot 
Monsters alone is almost north the price of admission. This 
is a near perfect rendition of Atari's isometric arcade game. 
You control a little fellow who runs around turning on esca- 
lators, destroying machines, blasting robots who look like 
popsicles with a bad attitude, and just enjoving the game's 
genial weirdness and technical smarts. Hours later you dis- 
cover it is 3am. 

It would have been hard to go wrong with KJax, and Do- 
mark didn't. It's a creative, addictive turn on the Tetris 
theme: colored rectangular pieces on a series of conveyor 
belts rolling toward a hopper that you use to drop them in 



various configurations. Hard Drivin' II: Drive Harder has got- 
ten only so-so press abroad, hut I liked it: four tracks, a track 
editor, graphics that pleasantly approximate the original sit- 
down arcade game, and better speed than I'd been given to 
understand. I do wish you could pop from the editor to the 
driving game without rebooting, and control remains a weak 
point, but this really isn't bad. 

The other two "hits" are, alas, more like near misses. All- 
Points Bulletin shouldn't be one of them; it's a delightfully de- 
tailed police game — the buildings beside the streets loom up 
in three splendid dimensions — and the animation when you 
lose is a riot. But its screens are oddly murky, and it hasn't 
been compressed onto the smaller NTSC screen from the 
original PAI. version, so your car is out of sight at the bottom 
of the screen. 

Finally, there's Toobin', which has you paddling downriver 
in a frail inner tube. It's a pedestrian conversion that makes 
all the correct sounds and moves, yet somehow lacks the Lotus 
Land quirkiness ofthe arcade original and has the brittle, con- 
version-by-numbers feel of games like 1945. Toobin' just 
doesn't float. 

Do note that all five games w-ere designed for pre-A3000 era 
machines and that some may cause later models to spew and 
rlntmba uncontrollably. If you have an A500 or A2000, how- 
ever, you're in business. 



SHORT TAKES By Peter Olafson 




Fighter Duel Pro 

The best Amiga-specific flight simulator since F/A-18 Interceptor just got 
better. Fighter Duel Pro (S59.95) is, in a sense, the real version of Jaeger 
Software's earlier Fighter Duel. It's not quite as charmingly homemade as 
the original, but has all the little perks you'd demand of the big boys: lots 
of additional planes, two computer opponents, variable difficulty levels, and 
the option (with a bit of extra hardware) to use a second machine for a rear 
view. I had a bit of trouble getting it going from hard disk on a 512K chip 
RAM machine, but it still makes flying feel like ice skating. 



Plan 9 from Outer Space 

Plan 9 from Outer Space ($39.95) is not one of Konami's better European 
acquisitions, I'm afraid. The idea for this graphic adventure from England's 



Gremlin is kind of cute — recovering bits of the awful movie of the same 
title — and there's some good spot animation during play. The reality is 
rather ugly: The style of play is antique, and I couldn't get any ofthe three 
copies Konami sent me to install on hard disk without getting I/O errors 
at the tail end of Disk 2. With four game disks, this is sort of a drag. OK, 
we've seen Plan 9. What's Plan B? 



Utopia 

Pure gold. Utopia (Konami, S49.95) is a superb synthesis of two great 
concepts: SimCity's community management and PowerMonger's game 
of conquest. You're charged with establishing and defending an off-world 
colony. Initially, this just means laying out various task-specific 
buildings — from a nice bank-camera perspective — and trying to make 
colony folk happy. But at length, aliens begin to turn up on your lawn and 
you can bet they're not from Welcome Wagon. Right then you'll begin to 
appreciate the real depth of Utopia — that this rather still and empty-seem- 
ing city has a life below the surface, that weapons factories put out product, 
that your researchers can invent improvements. Add this to the Best of '92 
list, would y;i? 



Data Disks Redux 

By and large, a data disk is only as good as its parent game, and both 
of this month's entries live up to their parents' high standards. Battle Isle 
Scenario Disk, Volume One |UBI Soft, S49.95I is for the three or four of you 
who have struggled through this excellent and challenging futuristic 
wargame, with 34 new maps (nine for the two-player mode). It's not just 
more ofthe same, either; there are new terrain types (desert, arctic, rivers, 
and coastal waters) and consequently new unit abilities and limits. You'll 
be busy through high summer. Any chance ol a map editor, UBI? 

Then there's Operation Sledgehammer (Three-Sixty, S39.95)— the first of 
two mission disks for Megafortress. It postulates the rise of military 
strongman in Iran — one supplied by Libya— and you'll be taking your ' 



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vibed-up B-S2 on a little (25-mission) sightseeing tour over those two coun- 
tries, with some new weapons on board and firing at you. All very nice, 
too, but the real key is that Sledgehammer preserves the game's unique 
status as a flight sim/strategy hybrid. Nice work, and a solid addition to 
the Megafortress line. 



Solitaire's Journey 

You know how most card games are: little multitasking time-killers for 
downloading, object-rendering, and spell-checking. You play, you lose, and 
you're done. Well, you can get rid of that idea right now. Solitaire's Journey 
(Quantum Quality Productions, S59.95) weaves 105 solitaire games — from 
Agnes Bernauer to Mount Olympus to Yukon — into cross-country trips, 
house hunts, and tournaments. And who'd a thunk it? It's a great game, 
with all the rules available on line and options up the wazoo. Plus, it installs 
snugly on a hard drive. In fact, think I'll nip away right now and do some, 
uh, spell-checking. 



than a new palette and the hard-disk installation routine is its own little 
slice of chaos. Look, folks, just use CBM's own routine. At least it has the 

advantage of working. 



Discovery: In the Steps of Columbus 

Discovery ($59.95) actually follows in the steps of Impressions' earlier 
Merchant Colony — a mundane trade/conquest game for which I professed 
a less than deep and abiding affection a few issues back. 

They got it right this time, this is a comparatively involving game of ex- 
ploration and colony-building. It plays more intuitively |though a tad more 
slowly, and with control still arcane in some areas); is full of thoughtful fea- 
tures; and there's simply more to do and more fun to have doing it. (Love 
all the buildings you can erect in port.) 

I did have the sense now and then that I was playing in a computer- in- 
habited vacuum, and an option for multiple human players would have 
been nice. But Discovery: In the Steps of Columbus is a step up. Not great, 
but solid stuff. 



Deuteros and Paladin II 

We have a nice pair of sequels here: one unfashionably early, the other 
unaccountably late. It can take a couple of years for a followup game to 
reach market. Deuteros (Activision, 39.95) has beaten that mark by virtue 
of Paragon's thoughtful import of Millenium last year. Folks who thought 
they'd happened on a great new game — in fact, Millenium 2.2 was released 
abroad a good bit earlier — now can have the satisfaction of playing its de- 
scendant now. This elaborate, atmospheric game of resource manage- 
ment — set a thousand years after its predecessor — is even more complex, 
not to mention better looking and better sounding, and there's just the right 
amount of stuff going on simultaneously, so you're never at a loss for some- 
thing to do. Quibble: It's been inadequately compressed from the PAL ver- 
sion, and you may find yourself peering down the cowl of your monitor for 
the missing portion of screen. 

The latecomer is Paladin II (Impressions, S59.95). It's essentially a prettier 
version of 1988's Paladin — i.e., a tactical wargame in the style of Breach 2, 
but with a medieval ethos and swords instead of lasers. And mainly the 
news is good. The graphics (32 colors, from all appearances) are top- 
notch — the quests you perform really look like little games now — the ani- 
mation and sound fine, and the built- in construction set is still versatile 
and easy-to-use. 

I don't detect scads of extra features here, which isn't necessarily a dis- 
advantage. (Paladin's very straight-forwardness was part of its appeal.) But 
the game is slow on a 68000-based machine when loading anything larger 



Cyber Empires 

SSI is whittling its roster of Amiga ports down to nothing; Spelljammer 
and Great Naval Battles have joined Dark Sun on the list of cancellations, 
and Matrix Cubed is looking iffy. However, at the same time, it seems to 
be stepping up its imports from Europe. (Huzzah!) This enjoyable and de- 
tailed amalgam of strategy, arcade, and wargame elements — a five-way 
battle for the heart and mind of the planet Orion — is one of them. (Over 
There, it's a Millenium game called Steel Empire; here it costs S49.95.) 

I like it. It's slick and smooth, and there's a little something for every- 
one — tactical combat is handled in arcade mode — and despite being some- 
thing of a stylistic hodge-podge, everything seems to works well with ev- 
erything else. Anything else in that black bag, SSI7 



Lotus HI 

If Core Design hadn't released Jaguar XJ220, I'd probably be gibbering 
and drooling over how this third entry in Gremlin Graphics' Lotus series 
was a knockout blow in Europe's car war to build a better Outrun. As it is, 
this is quite good — and runs like a demon on the A3000 — but also compares 
to Jaguar quite closely, both in terms of speed and features. I'll give a slight 
edge to Jaguar for realism. Can't stand those checkerboard roadways in 
Lotus III (about S40). What is this, Space Harrier? *•" 



If a software company doesn't 
make a game for the Amiga, make 
it yourself. That seems to be the 
prevailing dictum behind this 
crop of PD and shareware clones 
and copies. 

The Mad Bomber, Jungle 
Search, and Qube Hopper are Ami- 
ga renditions of the venerable 8-bit 
games Kaboom!, Pitfall, and Q- 
Bert, respectively. 

They're not ooo-gotta-get-it 
great, but they look better than 
the originals, play substantially 
the same, and the only real weak- 
nesses — aside from jerkiness in 



STILL MORE SHORT TAKES: 
PD AND SHAREWARE 



spots on the first two — are those 
of limited payability, which were 
inherent in the originals. Qube 
Hopper even comes with a level 
editor. (These three are share- 
ware. You can get them from the 
Amiga Arts games library on 
CompuServe.) 

Donkey Kong, on the other 
hand, isn't a clone but an almost 
flawless, note-for-note copy of the 



primal jumping-climbing-and-run- 
ning game, with an alleged added 
level to boot. To date, I've seen it 
only on DevWare's FD 81. (I've 
heard there's also an Amiga ver- 
sion of Muse's Castle Wolfenstein 
in this same school.) 

Then there's Sonic the Hedge- 
hog. Long have there been rumors 
and wishes on the nets that Sega's 
trademark Genesis character 



would make it to the Amiga in 
some form (the little blue guy's 
speed would translate perfectly) 
and it seems to be happening. This 
is only an automated demo — 
quite a good replica, too, in both 
speed and style — but the scrolling 
text describes it as a "game pre- 
view," so something more may be 
in the works. Stay tuned. (This one 
is available via certain FTP sites on 
Usenet) 

Now, if only I could talk some- 
one into making PD versions of 
M.U.L.E. and Miner 2049er,D 

— PO 



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P2A. Priming Utilities This disk contains a v&ry n.ce filCDe: maker that mil use 

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P23A6: Tobias Star Trek A graphic space adventure where you're the captain ol 

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P22: 3D Objects This d£k contains 1fi diflefent vector -objects tor use with Sculpt 
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P2l: Disk Duplicators This d* contains all the best \M ties to backup iJisketl&s 
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P19: PacMan Classics Contains Mazeman r Zonk and PacManB7 -.aH gioat impla- 
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PI 8: MS-DOS Emulation Contains PCTash and tffaM, two shareware I0MMS 
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P17: Printer Drive/s This disk contains over 70 printer drivers for many popular 
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Pi 6: TslocommunlcaHon This disk contains two drstcrass modem programs. 
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TC32AB: ComoLtRT CoJorin^i Book is a dslghtful program tor children of all ages — 
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TG31AB: CalBnjj aj Pubnsher is a profossioral caliber calendar maker tnai Is customiz- 
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RAMgauge. 3-D irectof objects and Hi Res IFF brushes, or maps and Rags of European 
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TC25AB: ScreenTolFF captures your screen to an IFF tile PppCp l orij lels you 
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wiil show-cH your Amiga: ability to do solid pCygon anmaSons Microscope lets you 
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eruSBty. 

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TC14AB j AmignFile is a database and address book. Graph 3-D lets you visualize 
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($34.95). Admittedly, keeping planes from running into each other is more 
an acquired taste than, say, flying them yourself, but the game |set over 
any of nine metro areas! feels scarily accurate at times, and I can easily 
imagine this stylish balancing act becoming a mild addiction. {I do wish 
they'd used digitized voices throughout, rather than the witless toy voice 
of the Say utility.) May your planes always stay on the glidepath. 



Celtic Legends 

Larry Bird does not have a featured role. Different Celts, y'see. This UBI 
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Sorry about the age of this one, folks; it sort of slipped through the 
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associated with superior Amiga games over here, but that's likely to 
change on the strength of such offerings as this vast platform game- 
based around the antics of Jake and Elwood Blues from the movie — and 
the forthcoming Crazy Car 3 and Titus the Fox. Here, the little Ray-Banned 
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The best Amiga wargame to come out of SSI in ages. For S69.95, it's an 
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the American Civil War. Bever (co-author of some of MicroProse's early 
wargames] pulled off a neat trick — giving you control over all sorts of ele- 
ments without ever burying you in detail. And now with Amiga menus, yet. 

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the Amiga version of Battle Hymn of the Republic? — and only the graphics 
can be installed to hard disk. But I can live with that. It's that good. 



home improvement- 
long TO BE THE ARCHITECT OF A 
community, not just a castle? if 
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Siege & Conquest (Interplay 
Productions, S59.95). In it, you 

BUILD AND DEFEND YOUR CASTLE, OF 
COURSE, PLUS YOU HAVE THE OPTION 
TO ATTACK AND DESTROY OTHER 
PLAYERS' CASTLES. YOU AND YOUR 
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ADMINISTRATIVE, DIPLOMATIC, AND 
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ING NEIGHBORING TERRITORIES, 
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armchair coach- 
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friend's over a modem or the 
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watch the results. (instant replay 
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AND TAKE AIM AT A FRIEND OH THE 

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or escape your attacker, sling- 
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KINGS AND CADDIES- 
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SCISCO DISCUSSES COURSES HOLE BY 
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LINKS from Access Software 

(BUT LEANS HEAVILY TO THE PC SIDE). 
A LIST OF GENERAL STRATEGIES, 



CHARTS OF PUTTING, CHIPPING, AND 
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ROUGH. [RS# 104.) 

WATCH IT GROW— dark 

Seed from Cyrerdreams may give 

YOU NIGHTMARES. In THIS GRAPHIC 
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WHO SIMPLY WANTS TO MOVE INTO HIS 

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way to escape! the game comes 
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Q. I've read that the A4000 can read and 
write MS-DOS formatted disks. As a small 
business owner with both a DOS laptop 
and an A500, I've bad no luck trying to 
get my Amiga to handle MS-DOS files. I 
have several MS-DOS utilities fur m\ 
Amiga, hut no disk that [formal on m\ 
laptop can be read on the Amiga. 

Randy Myers 
Boulder, CO 

A. The A4000 comes with a program 
from Consultron called CrossDOS 
($39.95) that allows the computer's 
disk drive to read and write to PC- 
formatted disks. Because the A4000 
has a high-density (1.7 MB) lloppy-disk 
drive as standard equipment, it also 
handles high-density PC disks created 
on most newer laptops. 

Yon didn't say which type and model 
of laptop you're using, but it's probably- 
safe to assume it's a newer model that 
uses a high-density drive. With the 
exception of a limited number of 
.■ViOlMVs. virtually all Amigas that pre- 
date the A4000 are fitted with low 
density S'Ai-inch drives, which makes 
them incapable of handling high- 
density PC-formatted disks. 

The solution's simple: Format the PC 
disks in low-density mode on your lap- 
top, or, better still, use one of your PC- 
compatible utilities to give them a low- 
density PC format on your Amiga. 
That will ensure their compatibility 
with the Amiga drive. 

Almost all the major telecommunica- 
tion networks and Amiga PD disk 
collections offer an MS-DOS utility 
called MulliDOS. A freely distributable 
program written by Kjell Didriksen, it 
allows all Amiga floppy drives (and 
high-density drives) to double as MS- 
DCS drives with no ill effects. 

To install it, you simply copy its files 
to their appropriate Workbench 
libraries (L, Devs, System) and follow 
the instructions. (Note: Those unaccus- 
tomed to the Shell will find the pro- 



By Tim Walsh 

gram requires more l ban a passing 
familiarity with Cl.I commands.) 

To minimize the typing MulliDOS 
requires, I've listed three scripts that 
work on all .Amigas equipped with 
AmigaDOS 1.3 or higher. ( Hie CD 
command on the first line is optional 
with AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.) 

First, type in the following two lines 
and save them with the filename 
"PCFMT" in your C directory: 

CD SYS:SYSTEM 

PC FORMAT DRIVE MDO: name MS-DOS 

Next, type in this script and save it 
to the C directory as "PC": 

CD SVS:SVSTEM 

PCMountAH 

Finally, save this script in the C direc- 
tory as "KILL": 

CD SYS: SYSTEM 
PCKillAII 

Finally, open a Shell window, type 
CD SYS:C and set the Protect bit on 
each of the above files to make them 
executable from any Shell. The syntax 
for doing that is as follows: 

PROTECT filename +S 

Once the above procedures are com- 
plete, to activate MulliDOS, just open a 
Shell window and type PC. Formatting 
an MS-DOS disk in drive till): is as easy 
as entering PCFMT. While you could 
keep MultiDOS running in the back- 
ground, it does add additional devices 
to all file requesters and occasionally 
interferes with obscure tasks and disk 
operations. The "Kill" script deacti- 
vates it from any Shell window. 

There's no need to get a PC-com- 
patible emulation board for your 
Amiga unless you plan to run MS-DOS 
programs on it, and these cards won't 
allow your A500 to read high-density 
PC disks. I've reviewed PC-compatible 



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dBASE on Amiga? 

Q. I've read that the files created with 
dBase III can be used on Amiga databases. 
After asking several local Amiga experts, 
they all had similar techniques for copying 
the pies from my 386 PC-compatible at 
work, but none knew how to manipulate 
them on the Amiga. Can I upload these files 
to my A3000 ami work on them at home? 

Len Carter 
Albany, NY 

A. You need Superbase Professional 4 
(Precision Software, S495) for your 
A3000, Superbase and dBase, though 
widely different in design, perform 
much the same. For simplicity's sake, 
let's assume you have a name and 
address list on your PC that needs to 
be on the Amiga. You don't need to use 
modems to upload the file to your 
Amiga — a disk utility such as MultiDOS 
(see above) is faster and easier. 

Since Superbase can import dBase 
files, the first step is to create an empty 
copy of a data file with a structure that 
matches (he dBase file field by field. If 
the dBase file is large (IQOK.+), copy it 
to your RAMdisk to make the process 
as fast as possible. Next, select the 
Import function from within Super- 
base. Select the file to be imported and 
the computer cloes the rest. 

If the dBase file was imported from 
the RAMdisk, your new Superbase file 
will be in RAM as a series of three or 
more files, too. Immediately copy them 
to another device for safe-keeping. A 
word of caution: dBase II and III files 
imported into Superbase cannot be 
edited as standard data files. You can 
use the Modify File option under the 
Project menu lo add fields to dBase 
files imported into Superbase format, 
then import mote dBase files or other 
data files into the modified file. ■ 



!10 February 1993 



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FD5: Tactical Games - BullRun • a Civil war battle game, Meiro you play 
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FD6: GAMES! - This disk is chock, lull of games including; Checkers. 
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sion ol Rfek, RushHour - Surprisingly addicting, and SpaceWar - Besl 
described as a cross between Com bat- Tanks and asteroids. 
FD7: Pacman ■ This disk contains several pacmars type games including ; 
PacManB?. MazMan and Zomx. 

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Lam aflO Hack Play rime several weeks' 

FD10: HackLile - A dungeon adventure game. Considered a must have 
classic This is tne second release of Ihis game on the Amiga Great 
graphic interlace. Play time several weeks' 

FD11 : Las Vegas and Card Games Las Vegas Craps - The ties* Las 
Vegas Craps simulation every wiitten toi any computer. Contains exten- 
sive HELP features, Also Thirty-One. VideoPoker and mc-re. 
FD1 2A.FD1 2B: Star Trek, The Game This is by tar the best Star Trek 
game ever written lor any compuler. It features mouse control, good 
graphics, digitized sound effects and great gameplay Counts as 2 disks 
Req 1Mb and two drives (or hd). 

FDi3; Board Games ■ contains muliiplayer Monopoly. Dominoes. 
Paranoids, and others. 

FDl4: Dungeon Master Hints and Arcade Games ■ DM maps, spells, 
item location, and hints and more, also on this disk. Hbatl - an 
arkano-o* breakout type game, Tnx - a Qx type clone 



FDI7; Educational Games - This disk includes several games for the 
younger members including geography, main, science and word games, 
also includes Wheel o' Fortune. 

FD2Q: Tactical Games- Mec.hForce(3.72). A game that simulates combat 
between two or more giant, robot-like machines Simple words can't begin 
to give you the feel of piloting a 30 - 40 tool tall. Into breathing, earth shak- 
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FD26:Arcade Games Marble sside is a commercial quality game — simi- 
lar to a Lucas game named PipeDreams, excellent payability and enter- 
tainment Mulants— a small version of the same arcade game 
SuperBreakout is a Pong/Arkancids type game. 

FD27: Arcade Games - This disk is loaded wiih some gieat games, 
includes. Raceorama a great racing car game with ten differeni courses. 
MiniBJas: a hehcopter gunship type done. Shark In the same class as 
Uoqer and SBreakout the original breakout with more. 
FD29: Shoot em ups WWII - you're the pilot of a WWII plane flying 
through enemy territory, you've just been spatted, good luck on you mis- 
sion. SpKilier - try and penetrate enemy lines with this game, and 
Retahaior ■ another great game. 

F031: Games! Mr Traffic Cortroi ■ a goad ATC simulation, Black Jack 
Lab - a full featured set of card games. Chess Tel - play chess with your 
fnend m distant and remote places with this game and a modem, labymth - 
a well done test adventure game (lika an mfocom game], anrj MouSeTrap - 
a3dmajegame- 

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port of your Amiga (or total emulalron Two disk set, counts as 
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FD32: Flight Simulator - An instrument flight simulator for a QC10. 
FD33: Arcade Games Ffreddy a Mario Brothers type ot game. Gerbils a 
target practice game. PipeLme a German interprets en of Pipe Dreams, 
Tran ,i light cycles version, and Wetrods a wondertui version ol asteroids 
with a hilarious twist 

FD35: Omega (v 1.3) - A new outstanding dungeon ard outdoors adven- 
ture game in a similar vein as hack, rouge, and mona T his version is con- 
siderably faster and belter that alt previous versions. Play time several 
weeks 

FD37A&B:Tactical Games - Empire [2.2w) This greal game comes hrghly 
recommended With a f jrl-graphic front end- 

FD38: Games Cnbbage Waster - A great cnbtjage game and tutor, 
Spades - 3 wen done card came. C^neseCnecheis A computer version 
Of this classic. Pun - a $lide piece puzzle gamo and construction set 
FD39A4 B : Star Trek. The New Generation - This is a. completely differ- 
ent version of Star Trek than that found on FD12. This one was created 
by me German author Tobias Now with English instructions ExoeHentHI 
Counts as two disks Requires 512^ 

FD44: Game ■ Mechtight is an out of this world role playing adventure 
comparable to hack and moria. The setting, interplanetary colonies and 
space stations In your quest to explore the world, take time out to liberate 
bad guys of their most valuable possessions, engage n a mortal combat 
or two agamsl rDbals and alien life forms, pick up a new Amiga 9000 Most 
of all, don 't lorget to stay alive.. . 

FD50: Submarine Game ■ Seaianca. one and a half years »n the making. 
this is an outstanding submarine tactical game. Commercial quality, highly 
recommended 

FDS2: Classics Games PetersQuest a well done Ma'io brothers type ol 
game. Jymbc a two player missile command clone, and VstanK a tank 
commander game. 

FD53: Great Arcade - On ti--s d sk is a wondertui implementation of the 
ever popj'ar classic arcade garre Defender Ai$c contan A r Race a WWII 
flying ace arcade game, and Psycoblast new creation idea game. 
FDS7; Arcade Games ■ IncMes 2 truly commercal quality games. 
MegaBau, an Arhanoid-ish game, features S musical scores, multiple lev- 
els and adidicting gameplay Gravity Attack is a psychaoeikc trip through 
several different worlds — each distinctly dilfereot. 

FD59: Game Potpourri Xenon 11] is an almost exact clone of the com- 
mercial game of the same name. -a great shooternup. Crossword will take 
lists of warns 3 automatically generate word-search puzrles for any Epson 
compatable printer 

FDSO: Games In Nebula, race over a 3d world to deslroy enemy installa- 
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FDB1: Games Solitaire; great graphics, plays two versions Kiide; an 
interesting piece of eye candy Extreme Violence; 2 p ayer kill or bellied 
game YATC, A Tetrts clone with Artifica! Intelligence GeneS'S; create 
realistic 3d 'racial wnrics. 

FD62: PomPom Gunner. An extremely smooth and well done World War 
II gunnet simulation Requires 1 megabyte of memory 
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FD64: Games ■ Wiz^y s Quest ■ a "great* 50 level game with great graph- 
ics Cubus a 3'dimensional Tetris type game [rotate and move m 3 
dimensions). Husker Du • Colors and pattern ralher than stiape in this 
Teins-esque game. 5 screens and 3 levels of difficulty. Requires Fat 
Agnus Meg of Chip) 

FD67: Arcade Includes Llarnatron a well-done ■Robotron' clone. Hate is 
a 'terrific' commercial grade ZaxKon clone with multiple levels/worlds and 
smooth diagonal scroNng...a 10! 

FD68; Potpourri ■ Eternal Rome is a strategic simulation ol Ihe Roman 
Empire including military, diplomatic, political, economic and social factors 
Lord of Hosts is a beard strategy game lor 2 players in Moonshine. 
you've got to get the hootch across the state tne — a great rolling, scrolling 
dnvjng game* 

FD59: MindGames M itj ir;:^ 1 □' suoot-eii vp games 7 tteia* and let 
these 2i games exercise your mind instead ol your wrist. 
FD70: SpaceGamcs Contains AmiGotds, >finallyi< an AsterQiOs game 
that takes advantage of the Amiga— totatly configurable with great sound 
and groah:cs In Cosmostructran the object at the game is lor each 
Cosmosinjction team to acquire the most points while construction energy 
ducts between the space station and planetoids. 

FD71 A&B: St#r Trek; TNG Trivia Challenge So you Think you know 
The Next Generation, huh? Complete with fantastic sampled sounds and 
digitized images. Ihis game even looks and sounds like a genuine Star 
Trek terminal 1 VERV thorough and complete! Counts as 2 disks, 
FD72: Sword ol the Warlock - This is a demo version ol a great public 
domain graphic dungeon adventure game. The adventure spans threB 
diskettes and allows two players to go adventuring, The game has a 
"Bards Tale' feel to H. Three disk set, counts as 2. Requires 1 meg Of 
RAM and 2 floppy drives- HD installable. 

FD73: Arcade Series - Intruder Alert is a MULTl-le-el 'Berserk' clone. 
Features smooth gameplay. great graphics & digitized sound Vx, 
FD7J: Arcade Series RmgWar is an "Outer Limits' clone win vectonred 
graphics. MothofLode "5 a "Lode Runner" clone with 50 levels! 1 In 
BhlzTanks. tfiey're coming at you from all directions" Call m air strikes 
and use your treaty artillery to survive' 

FD75: Arcade Series ■ Descender is a clone of the classic arcade game 
"Tempest"; complete with vectorized graphics Tanx is the ciassc battle of 
trajectories and inertia between two tanks— tncredLbly well done» Search 
is a maze game unlike any other — included is a level editor too (Tanx 
requires 1 meg chip m&mory=Fat Agnus) 

FD76: Catacomb - js a full graphic dungeon adventure game with beauti- 
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version of one of me best publ c domain ccnmjn: cations p'ograrrc ever 
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WB5: Fonts <i- Several fonts (35) for the Amiga, also included are live 
PageStream fonts.and ShowFont ■ a font disp ; ay program 
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WB7: Clip Art - This disk is loaded with black and white clip art. An 
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WB9: Icons - Truly a multiiude c-f various types and kinds, Also includes 
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WB10: Virus Killers The latest and best VirusX(4.0j, Kv(2,l}, and 
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DTP' 

WB25:Educational On this disk are two programs that can generate 
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a great demonstration ol Albert Einstein General Theory ol Relativity. 
WS2S: Disk Utilities *2 MrBackup. KwickBackup - two wb1I done utilities 
to do harddisk and floppy disk backups. FileMast a binary file editor. 
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WB27: Nagjel 26 Patrick Naget pictures ot beautiful women 
WB29- Graphics and Sound - Thrs disk has several different Mandelbrot 
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WB33:Clrcui1 Board Design - several 1 iernlic routines lor the electronic 
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WB34: Utilities • Several well done utilities, some will require moderate 
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user delmed sound after any event {ie. disk insert, mouse click, disk 
removal . .). , Artm - The Amiga real time monitor, gives you full conirol of 
the Amiga OS, very powerful program. Helper - help program lo make 
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WB35: 3D Graphics This disk contains several neat programs to ubb 
with your 3d modelmg'raytracing programs 3dFonts - Full vector fent set 
for use with 3d programs. Font Maker - make 3d fonts from any system 
font. MakeSDShape - create 3d shapes from any image, OumptolFF - ere- 



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ale 3d an urn aborts preserves pallet, and WorldSd ■ a demo program of a 
Ironl end lor use wilh DKBRender 

WB36: Graphics On ihis Disk are severai programs to create siunnnrtg 
graphical images including. MPath ■ creates swirling galaxy images. 
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WB37: Educational ■ Educational games and puzzles that cove; math, 
geography, spelling, and books, Ages 6 15 

WB3S: Plotting and Graphics ■ Plolxy is a powerful full featured plotting 
package. Used by many colleges and universities. Highly recommended. 
Plans ■ a incredibly well done Computer Aided Drafting program, very full 
featured Tesselator - a program that helps generates fantastic looking, 
recursive M.C. Ecsher iype pictures. 

YVB40: Music ■ "CD on a disk', 90 minutes of modern music OH this weil 
pieservted collection. Requires 2 drives or HO. 

V/B41: Music Ml-I: n j-.:; l .<■ well done, lull featured music eciior 
Create your own stuming music directly en your the Amiga, Simitar la 
SoundTracher but better. Very poweriut easy to use program Version 
3-20, which is eompatabte wnti WB2+. 

WB43: Business - This disk contains Analytical ■ probably ths most 
powerful spreadsheet program on the Amiga. A lull featured spreadsheet 
with many features expected m a commercial package. Req. 1.2 MB 
WB46: Clip Art HignRes clip an wtth the following motifs - ernbel ish- 
menis (borders, dodads ,...). people, and transportation, 
WB47: Clip Art ■ HighRes dip an wiih the following mollis - hair, d/ating. 
summer, animals and macfood. 



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WB*B; Clip Art - HighRes cl p art with ihe following motifs - Holidays. 
music, medical, and m sc. 

WB49ABC: Animation Sampler - On this three disk sampler sel { counts 
as two disks} are some of the best animations, that have been created 
over the last three years. Several examples of "Movie" type animates 
some with spectacular raytraced reality fccolroby. watch, spigot and 
egg] Also several european style or Dema animation with incredible 
graphics and oulstandmg electrons music (aknlight, copersme, doc. 
dps2QlO. impact, and logodenno). These truly show off the Amiga' 
WB5Q: Animation Seven of the best european style animations or 
~Demos J . including scientific 45t. subway (a U.S. entrant, also our 
favontej , sunnde. tnrsidemo. inighi. waves, ard woow. 
WB53: Graphics Raytracmg programs generate absolutely stunning 
realistic looking planes, rockets buildings... and surreal images often 
consisting ol highly polished spheres and objects C-Ligh! is Ihe most 
powerful EASY-TO-USE of its kiod we have seen to date, TWs ts -easily 
better, ar%d more full featured, than simitar coTtmerctal programs costing 
in the hundred* of dollars. Also. sMovie • a full featured video lem -i: or 
similar to ProVideo. Broadcast Tiller. Great video scrolling, wipes, special 
effects, and more .... 

WB54; Printing - This disk contains several routines to help with the 
chare of printing. Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner printer for the PD! 
PrintStudio -a well implemented all-purpose printer-utility with a very 
comlortabie graphic interface and many advanced features, Lila - with 
ease, print ASCII liles to a PostScript printer, and many more. 
WB55; Application ■ XCopylM - a full featured disk copier, make back- 
ups of copy protected disks. HoadFtouie - find ihe quickest route from 
one city to another, highway description included Diary ■ a diary program 
like 'Dougy Howard M-D", Ca' ■ a calendar program. Mag-man - a 
database tai'ored to maintain records on articles and publications. 
WBS7: Animation - This disk has several "Demo' style animations. 
Including. Slitter, Lolly. Sun5, vertigo, vortex, and *enmorph 
WBG2: Midi Utilities - Several useful ma u:i ::.es including, programs to 
transfer jo and from several music programs to midi, a midi syseit han- 
dler, a midi recorder with timeoase. display mdi info. Me sequence play- 
er, and a few scores 

WB63: Disk Utilities #3 Seveial highly recommended programs to aid 
m removing duplicate files from your hard drive, performing file backups, 
Binary editing, fast lo'mattmg, (tie recovery, disk track recovery., and 
forced PiSK VALIDATION of corrupt disks 

WB6S: Icons #2 Lots ol neat icons. Also h several wonderful programs 
that to let you create your own icons, modify and manipulate icons and 
info structures. 

WB68:Music Utilities several good utilities for the Amiga mu&ic enthu- 
siast- includes, Naiaetracker - a great musrc creation program. 
SonncSMOD - converts sonix lo mod files which then can be used by 
noisetracker, soundtral«er r and MED. SpeakerSim ■ a speaker design tool 
demo, Wondersound is an additive harmonic nstrumeni design fool with 
a separate envelope cesign window and 16 -dative harmonic strength 
and phase angle controls 

WB69: Music ■ This disk ftas over 90 minutes of classical and) modem 
electronic m-jsrc for you Amiga. 

WB70: Desk Top Pub - Atcp ■ transfer Madntosn screen, fonts. Mac Or 
IBM formal AFM metro hies, to Amiga screen fonts and PPage metric 
fries. With this program, open the door to the libraries of Adobe and 
PostScript fonts' Calendar - month templates n PageStream form, Post 
■ a tu!l featured postscript die display and pnnt utility. 
W875: Music ■ over 100 instruments files f.msil and sample sound files 
(.ss| for your music programs. 

WB76: Applications • This drsk contains Stichery - a often requBSied 
knitting design program, Lotto ■ a rather complete Tottery tracking and 
orediciion utility. SSS this screen capture program can grab almost any 
screen including games. Today - a personal calender. Taroi ■ fortune 
teller, and Grammar - g-ammar checker. 

WB79: Home & Business Accounting - Includes Ckbacct the most 
complete checkbook accounting program going. LCDCalc ■ this well done 
calculator has a vBry large display and operates from the keyboard or 
mouse. Mileage master ■ mom lor your automobile mileage with this 
mileage log, Grammar - a grammar checker, and Woridtime ■ find out 
what time it is m up to 50 global cities. 

WBBi- Great Applications - DataEasy a very easy to use. database 
program Don"! let the ease of use fool you, this is a very full featured 
database program including full printer control for address labels anrj 
mail merge applications. Atso includes. Type Tut a good typing tutor. RLC 



a full featured label prrnter, Banner, a multifont banner maker, and 
Budget a homB accounting m a program Highly -ecommendeO. 
VYB82; Animations; - Four Ml length, well done "movie" style anima- 
tions. Inctudmg, Coyote. Juggierll. GhosiPool, & Mechanic 2 disks, 
counts as 1 . 

WB83: Computer Art - this disk has some of the best Amiga generated 
computer art Mat we have collected in the past 5 years. 
WBBBABC: The Complete Bible A three disk sel. with the entire text of 
the New Testament and Old Testament. King James version A great utili- 
ty. Three disk set. counts as three. 

WB90: Rippers. Strippers and Beats ■ For Ihe Amiga music enthusiast, 
this disk contains many programs designed strip musrc from your favorite 
games and programs Also contains Drums, a very mes drum machine, 
This disk requires some knowledge o 1 the CLI 

WB93: Workbench Extras #2 This disk contains the unities that 
Commodore should have shipped with the Amiga, VirusX<v0, Snap, 
FixD'S'k (recove-corrupLceleied hies), Disk Optimize* (Itoppy & hard). 
Machlll (screen blanker, hotkey, mouse accei.. macro, dock utility), 
GOWF [agurU3U5ter)and PnntStudio 

WB95: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 - This is definitely commercial 
grade: we've seen many checkbook programs and this is aDSOtulety the 
best Full budgeting, transaction recording and report generation, 
WB96: Dupers ■ Contains Xcopylll S Nib which will backup copy-protect- 
ed programs FreeCopy removes copy protection from several pro- 
grams, and SuperDuper will crank-out lasl AmigaDOS copies. 
WB9B: Business - Includes BBasell a nice, powerful database: 
BizCaJc — a personal or mortgage loan calculator with amort ■zafic-n capa- 
bilities, Loop — a flowchart maker. Form maker ■ design professional forms 
on your Epson LQ-250O compatible printer. 

WB99: Lifestyles - Includes AGene— family tree program that tracks up 
to 600 people'marriages'eic. Landscape is a CAD program to create 
gardens landscapes Loom simulates an 8 harness loom, experiment 
with pattern design in an instant feedback environment- 
WBlQl : ChemestheUcs is a program that displays molecules as a 
calotte model This kind of display contains a certain esthetic attitude, 
even poisonous molecules like nicotine and diotme look quite nice. 
WB1Q2: Telecommunications Contains the programs NComm 2.0 
and VT100-29B. Zmodem protocols. XPR protocol support, full VT100 
emulation. NComm's script language is so powerful it comes with a 
script die that creates a full-featured BBS system 

VVB103: Music - Contains 12 'great' Soundtracker/MED music 
MODules complete with prog r^mmahJershuf fie player , S bil audio never 
sounded so hot' Two disk sel counis as two 

WB1Q6: Home Manager - This is a great all-m one address book with 
an autodialer. notepad todo lisfappointment scheduler/home inventory 
Oatabase and pnone number dialer. 

WBIOfl: OctaMED - This breakthrough program doubles your Amiga's 
sound capabilities from 4 channels to an ear-popping 8 channels! All the 
renound editing capabilities of MED plus 4 more channels' II you thought 
your Amiga sounded good before, .you ain-t heard nuthin' yetf 
WB109: VersoWise Display, search and output The New Testament to 
text lilesor your printer, 

WB112: Productivity Business - Stock Analysis allows automated 
downloading of stock data with full analysis capabilities (requires 
modem] SubStore will allow you to log magazines and arises with full 
search scan. print capabilities, 

WB113: Sid II - Why pay ^o bucks 'or a directory utility, wnen this one 
will do it all plus much more' A truly professional -caliber program. Sid 1 
was our best, now compteieiy rewritten. Sid 2 will astound you. 
WB1 14; Fonts S4 - Contains 36 bilmap system fonts. 
WB115: Term ■ It you have AmigaDOS 2.Q4+ and a modern, then tbts is 
THE program for you Term totally conforms lo the User Interface Style 
Guide for 2 04, has an ARexs port, and supports all popuIa r file-transfer 
protocols through XPR libraries We wish all programs we-e this gooo 
WB1 16: Databases - This is what you've been wailing for 1 Contains 5 
uniquely specialrzed diabase programs for tracking: Videotapes, CD's. 
Magazine Articles. Comic Books and Trading Cards 1 
WB117; Religion - Contains Scripture Mem [aids in memorizing verses 
and passages) and in Pauls Journey, you are Paul of Tarsus exploring 
Ihe Mediterranean and preaching just as Paul did Req. 1 MB RAW. 

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DD<J5: AREXX Programs - This disk contains several useluf arexx pro- 
grams and examples. PopCU4 - The fatest of a must have utility. 
DD47: Pascal This disk contains everything needed to program in 
Pascal Includes, A68k (1.2) 6300.0 assembler, Blink linking software 
and PCQ [10' a modest Pascal suo-set compiler. 
DD49: C Compiler - contains zc(1 01) fully K&R, zcc(l.Q) front end. 
A66h(i 2( assembler. Blink linker. 

DD50: ARexs #2 - a must have set of tutorials on ARexr and several 
useful examples and utilities for ARexK development. 
DDSl ; Circuit Analysis - Aspice (2 3) A full featured program for electric 
Circuit analysis. 

DD52: Scientific - Includes Elements ■ an incredibly well done periodic 
table program with source, Scientific plotting over 600k of Latlice C 
source routines lhat can be included ih your own programs, 
D054; Compression - This disk is loaded with all of the best file com- 
pression programs and aids lor the Amiga Many of the programs can be 
used by the new user. Includes Arc. Lharc. Lhwarp. Pka*. PowerPacker 
a must have by all. Zip, Warp, and Zoo. Also IFFcrunch an excellent 
compression for IFF files. 

OD55: ARP On this disk you w«JI find the complete ArpRel3 release 
including the full user docs, the full Dev&iopers gu de ARP s Ihe offioal 



|" WB105A&B: W-Jrkbench 2+ Extras Wl 

I "litis set contains ihe pro-g ra n* tftatflhoald^iKfcfecea included with WB2.QM 
I These rKiivirful utilitliej take full advantage of the mtttiy new eSpaWtiUttj 
J ihai arc available in Workbench 2.0. 

't«mjI \lannjter a unndcrful utihiy (o twiif pmgranis to your TOOL mcnu.j 
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[B«ii pragrBmi...dnd fuuch iiiikv! (Sc« the revitw in AmigaWorld-Mny'SI)! 
iVIrui IPrulecHon - ju*;i drop (Jw* icon in your WBSurtup draper. | 
iDegradcr - giver* yny tnol< (a t*r\' to unAc- non-2.(J luppj progrims work!! 
'icon ■ Enhances WoHtbcoch'i "Show. All" 10 display over -MJdiitliTKl icon-.' 

for difTetent iypc«s of file* (text. JFF%* sourtc cades, libraiie*;. etc). 

Foflt Editor - (*rcar-r/edit bitmap f*>nts »'ith tuil color rappOrt!| 
|Scmn BUnkcr* - jU irj^kil-. and splitters and swrmhs: bee*]| 
| Requctltr Knlianctr* - no J^orr •Hale "Plcaw tnxcrt Volume" rtqiiCMers-l 
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The AmigaWorld "Best-Of" Set! 

FDB5ABCD: AmlgaWorld's Best - These four disks contain the hoffesf 
p'd games of '92' Includes Mother Lode, f/oria, Minefield, Poing, 
Intruder Alert, Deluxe PacUan, Rodky and Super Artillery (see Oec. "92 
AmigaWorld] Four disk set. counts as three. 

AmigaDOS Resource Project (ARP) release 1.3. ARP makes many 
improvements to AmigaDOS arid makes your CLI more powerful. 
DD57: Advanced Utilities ■ Msh - like Cross-dOS. copies files to and 
horn MS-DOS. Pa'-NTSC - convert any pal program to NTSC and vice 
versa. Also several boosts for your startup- sequence, plus 25 more pro- 
grams. 

DDG2: Basic and X scheme - Cursor - a full featured Amiga Basic com- 
piler,, sbasrc and hex: - several wonderful routines to help in basic pro- 
grangers, and Xscheme - an mjer-jieted object oriented language. 
DD66: Programming ToolBox Many programs to help m your develop- 
ment efiorts (most lor C some for basic) Includes programs to generate 
requesters, an incredible spntemaker toaluo*, 10 fjreatly aid compiling, 
convert D Paint brushes to C structures, a great library manager, and 
many more wonderful time savers' 

DD69:Advanced Utilities SerNet and ParNet - Connect two Amiga's 
and share resources, MemMomtor - Similar lo WFrag but greatly 
improvedn Selector - put menus on yo^r workbench screen, and more. 
DD71A&B1C Compiler - This disk conlams DICE. Manhew Dillons full 
fealured. powerful C compiler and environment system 2 Disks, counis 
as 2. 

0077: Fortran ■ Contains a lull featured Fortran 77 Development syslern. 
Also contains EzAsm a strongly macro dependent 68000 assembler. 
OOSZ: Unix - Contains a working demo of Mini* - a Unix workalike. 
Mimx is system call compatafi'e with V7 of Unix. 

0083: IBM - Not one. but TWCMBM emulators that wrll allow the running 
of MS-DOS software with Amiga programs'" Comes complete wilh pro- 
grams 10 turn your Amiga floppy drives into 72QK IBM compalable drives 
DD85: AnalytlRIM Tis incredible program is a combination of a power- 
ful spreadsheet and a Relational Information Manager (database). Not 
for tne taint of heart, this is a heavy-duty package 1 Req. i MB RAM 
OOS6: The Programmer Includes GadTools and REOTools which will 
allow you to create your user interfaces and then tne program will auto- 
matically generate "C" source code or Assembly -code- saving you count- 
less hours of work 1 Requires, and writes code for, AmigaDOS2+. 

Video-Related Disks/ 

V09: 24- BH - Coniains Rend^-i which allows you lb proof Toaster-gen^ 
erated 24 bit animations Also contains utils to convert IFF's lo IBM 
VGA, Windows readable lormai Also contains latest release o! JPEG- 
>IFF converter 

V01 : Graphics ■ Picbase wi I let you view and track ALL of your IFF pic- 
tures over all ol those floppies! Freepamt is a De^uxe-Pamt workalike 
Agraph is a powerful utility lo produce snazzy graphs. 
V03: Imejje Utils - lei ViseoTooisOnTsp let you tap into the video power 
of your Amiga for fades, co'cr and greybars as we'i as a plethora of other 
indespen&abie video functions. TitleGen will do professional crawling 
tilfes. JPEG converts JPE.G-> IFF with amazing compress-on ImageLab 
performs special effects on IFFs 

VOS; Modelling - Vertex allows you to create 3-D objects without using 
the abstract X. Y and Z views Loads Sculpt-3D/4D. Turbo Silver. 
Imagne. LightWave, GEO and Wavehont formats. WagicTween will 
metamorphasize sny two pictures by automatically animate the "in- 
between' frames. 

V06: Modelling Objects Contains 20 vector objects in Imagine format. 
These are perfect for use with V05 or your favorite 3D modelling pro- 
gram. Includes Amiga 3000, space station a many mors! 
V08: CompuGraphic Fonts - Contains 2 cFipart- style fonts and 4 actual 
typefaces for use wilh VVB2.04 and its Fountain utir'y Great for desktop 
publishing and'or video projects, 

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Adspec Programming 


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Reader Safety First 

As an electrical engineer, I feel com- 
pelled to point out a potentially dan- 
gerous problem found in the drawing 
on page 52 of the December '92 AW. 

Depending on the orientation of the 
AC ping, exposed metal parts on this 
device can have a potential 120 volts 
with respect to ground. Someone 
touching the device and any grounded 
object simultaneously (their computer, 
for instance) could be electrocuted, or 
at the least receive a very unpleasant 
electrical shock. Further, since the 
dimmer switch has a virtual short cir- 
cuit on its output, it is likely to fail, 
possibly applying all the current that 
the AC line can supply to the piece of 
stainless-steel wire. The result would 
likely be a shower of molten steel as the 
wire disintegrates. 

The solution to this problem is to 
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will isolate the wire and alligator clips 
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cutting wire, the dimmer switch and 
ultimately, the user. 

Sony to have to inform you of this, 
but I feel it's important for the safety of 
your readers that you be aware of the 
potential danger of the device. 

David Oliver 
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Thank you for pointing out the problem. 
AW readers should follow David's advice, 
and to anyone reading this who attends u 
user's group: Please make an announce- 
ment about it at your next meeting. 

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The Book on ARexx 

The response to the question "Are 
there any good .ARexx books specific to 
the Amiga?" ("The ARexx Interview," 
p. 55, Dec. '92) omitted The ARexx 

Cookbook, which is 251 pages of pure 
tutorial, and includes two full disks of 
examples: robust, useful, real-world 



examples. Many of my videographer 
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lyn Scott wrote in about her husband's 
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cause he would soon lose the ability to 
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AMOS and NTSC 

I am writing to make a small correc- 
tion to the article you printed about 
the AMOS programming language (p. 
22, Dec'92). The writer of the column 
stated that the .AMOS Compiler and 



AMOS 3D were available, but had 
problems with the NTSC standard. I 
purchased AMOS way back when it was 
first released and although the original 
AMOS did have a few utilities that were 
not "NTSC-friendiy," the program still 
works fine. The compiler, although not 
officially NTSC, has no problem with 
NTSC systems at all. Even the intuition 
screen is fully visible. Though the com- 
mand extension set works fine, the 
heart of the 3-D system, the Object 
Modeler, requires a PAL display. The 
way around this if you have a Super 
Agnus in your system, is to use a pro- 
gram like PAI.CON to switch your 
screen format. Regardless, AMOS is 
still the best programming language 
for the Amiga. 

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About This Month's Cover 

THE AMIGA-GENER-YFED butterfly 
image on our cover is from a four- 
minute animation entitled "Life" that 
was created using three AmigaA'ideo 
Toaster workstations, and which won 
the overall Best of Show Award at its 
debut during Computer Edge's San 
Diego Computer Fair. All objects in 
the scene were modeled by Mark 
Miller of MG Software & Video. The 
image for print was rendered in 
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ferred to TIFF files using Art Depart- 
ment Professional (ASDG), with the 
help of Enosis Creative Services, and 
then saved to a Mac-formatted 
880MB Syquest. Photo Visions of San 
Diego outputted the image through a 
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